1858.] Of two "Edicts bestowing Land. 249 



of the venerable* and auspicious A'lhana,f grandsons of the vene- 

 rable Uttama, and descended from the stock of Gautama and the 

 three lines of Gautama, Amgirasa, and Autathya. 



Giving heed to this endowment, and observant of our commands, 

 you will discharge all dues, as they fall to be liquidated ; to wit, 

 share of produce, tribute, quadrivial tolls, Muhammadan amerce- 

 ments^ and the like. 



Bearing on this topic are these couplets :§ 



6. Not by the digging of a thousand reservoirs, nor even by a 

 hundred hippocausts, nor by the gift of ten millions of kine, does 

 the resumer of land make expiation. |j 



* The original word is thakkura ; and so of the ' venerable,' qualifying the name 

 of Uttama. See a note at p. 241, supra. 



f In the abstract translation of this inscription, above referred to, this name is 

 strangely metamorphosed into"Alhad Pathuck Ras, a Brahmin of Singolee." 

 A'godalf will account for " Singolee." 



% The latter two classes of impositions are not specified in the previous inscrip- 

 tion. From the first of them it may possibly be inferable that the impoverish- 

 ment of the imperial coffers had recently given rise to a new species of fiscal 

 exaction ; and, from the other, that the encroachments of the Northern invaders 

 were gaining head, and that their domination was beginning to be recognised. 



§ Of the six stanzas with which this instrument terminates, the first five are, 

 with the exception of various readings, identical with the first five at the end of the 

 former inscription. In the second distich at the conclusion of the present grant, 

 we have, but without change of import, ^^TljT "3 'CqTTT'^T : m P iace °f "^Tl" 3 ^- 

 •g^^^TjIT :. In the fifth distich, again, we here find a transposition; equally 

 immaterial: JTTfl^ft ^n^=fc ^ f or ^ijjeft JIT^f. 



|| In one place where this couplet occurs, the reading is ^T^%^r '^TSI^^rP'T 

 4 by a thousand repetitions of the tdjapeya sacrifice ;' at which seventeen victims 

 were immolated ; and ^^jf?r ( obtains emancipation' for ^J"£jfW ' performs atone- 

 ment.' See Journal of the As. Soc. of Bengal, for 1841, p. 100. 



Elsewhere, the word ^fq - in the first measure of this couplet, is omitted. 

 Journal of the As. Soc. of Bengal, for 1839, p. 493. 



The immolation of a horse was once accounted " the king of sacrifices," and 

 equal to efface all sin. See the laws of the Manavas, XI., 261 ; and Colebrooke's 

 Miscell. Essays, Vol. I , p. 238. 



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