510 ANCIENT REMAINS 



race, 1 having meditated on the merits of his parents, and having- wor- 

 shipped the Brahmans (in this place 2 called Pentama bhuktiya Pimpari) 

 thus decrees. 



On the 1 2th of Jyeshta, having touched water, we have granted for the 

 augmentation of the merit of our ancestors and our own, unto the sons of 

 Bhatta Ganri Dalta, named Bhatta Bhava Datta and B halt a Dhara Datla 

 Brahmans of the Madhyanjana branch of the Vajisaneya order of the Bha- 

 radwaja tribe. 3 This village* to be had and enjoyed with all rights of 

 treasure trove, wood and water, egress and ingress, and exempt from tax or 

 toll. 5 Let them therefore dwell in it and possess it in peace as is pro- 

 per and be all future kings thus admonished, " Those princes who give 

 lands rejoice in heaven; those who usurp it fall into hell; consider well 

 these two things. Life is transient and fortune fickle, and then act as 

 seems best." 



The fruit of protection and spoliation is as that of virtue and vice, and 

 is heaven or hell. They cite the verses of Vyasa 6 in proof. 



The gifts made by the wise are gold, and land and cows, the daughters 

 of the sun and forms of Vishnu ; these three are established in the world: 

 that a person may give either one or the other. 



1 This seems to be the meaning of the text though it is not quite clear. 



2 This is conjectured to be. the meaning of Padake, the other words of the sentence are not Sans- 

 crit and may possibly be the local names not very faithfully represented ; the original is Xfglfjl^ffftlf 

 ^^f^T^^rC)' ^ r * Jenkins mentions the Pyri river in the vicinity of Raju and Pimpari may be 



connected with that. 



3 These divisions are well known and are still extant in the south of India. Madhyanjana would 

 more correctly be Madhyahdina and Vajisaneyi, Vajipeya. 



4 No name occurs here which renders it more probable that it has been inserted above. 



5 Such is the general tenor of the provision but the exact words of the text are not fully made Cut | 



6 Or of the Tj 'isa Gita ; the phrase is •qi^lftcl SH^ ^l^ST^T^^t^ J 



