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310 _, ■, ■ ■ - ^ ; SANSCUIT INSCRIPTIONS 



of Tejapal^, his brothers, their wives, and their kindred, are to have the 

 - riglit, in perpetuity, of bathing and worshipping here at all seasons. Another 

 set of the inhabitants of Chandrdvati, transmit to their posterity the right of 

 bathing, See. on the third of Chaitra, at the festival of Neminath ; another set 

 on the fourth, and so on. The Inscription presents a list of very extraordinary 



• names, both of places and persons. The former are the villages Kasahraddf 

 ' Bralimdna Dhauli, Munda St*hala, a Tirtha, Handd-u-dra, MardJidra, Sihil 



Wdra^ Deul wdra, on the Arbuda-hills, Matamahdbu, Ymouya, Urdsa, Utara- 

 chhttt Sihara, Sala^ Hetaunji, Aklii, and others readily verifiable, perhaps, on 



• the spot : the names of the persons are too numerous, and unimportant 

 to be recapitulated. 



Besides the appropriation of privileges, the document records the assent of 

 the Brahmans and Rajaputs, of the same district and village, to the arrange- 

 ments made by Tejapala, and their guarantee of the reservation of the tem- 

 ple, to the Jain worship, as long as the sun and moon shall endure. 



No. XX. Although considered as one number, is a set of small inscrip- 

 tions, to the extent of forty-six, apparently on separate divisions round the 

 temple of Neminatha :* they record the construction of J^w/i/m^, or shrines, of 

 the different Jinas, of their Images, and of grants for their worship by different 

 Jain individuals, but chiefly Tejapala, or some of his kindred, and are dated, 

 accordingly, from Sainvat 1287 to 1293. One, in some provincial dialect, which 



* The original calls them Mandirs. Quere — if small temples are intended, or only the separate 

 shrines of the figures. '^f^T H^ ^^i'iTT^ ^ ^^l%WT ^ % In the outset, the description is 

 '^H'^l ^^IT ^\ "^WK # ft^f^ t%^%j tlie latter seems most likely by Ihe term ^if^^, 

 a little house— a niche. 



