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Of Two Land-grants , issued hy King Hastin. [No. 1, 
And it has been declared by the worshipful and preeminent sage, 
VySsa of the Veda : 
Strenuously guard, 0 Yudhishthira, land presented aforetime to 
the twice-born : for more laudable is protection after gift than is 
donation, most excellent among rulers. 
By numerous kings, for instance, Sagara and others, the earth has 
been enjoyed. To him of whomever, at any time, is a territory, 
appertains then the fruit of merit attached to the bestowments of land 
made by his predecessors. 
For sixty thousand years the donor of land rejoices in paradise ; 
but just as many does the disseizor, and so the abettor of disseizin, 
abide in a region of dolor* * * § 
The end. And this was engrossed by Suryadatta, son of the 
financierf Ravidatta, grandson of the financier and minister Nara- 
datta, great-grandson of the minister Yakra. The commissioner in 
the transaction was Bhagralia. 
Insckiption, No. II. 
f*R*nr- 
TT^fWRI^Y'SrictcqY^T || 
* Professor Wilson’s translation of these stanzas is not simply loose, but 
incorrect. Still, a minute critique on the subject may be dispensed with. 
f So I apprehend, at a venture, what Professor W ilson esteems “ the title or 
designation Bhogika.” The name of Suryadatta’s great-grandfather, Yakra, 
whom the Professor ignores, is bare of this qualification j and hence it cannot 
denominate his family. 
Words contained in these inscriptions, hitherto uninserted in our lexicons, or 
of which, as I here understand them, supplementary acceptations are desiderated* 
aro ^xjfx^PC, ’fTPF, OTH, wffavT. 
J Thus, and rightly, on the plate. See a note on the first inscription. 
§ ^n^j, with the anuswara faintly traced, in the original. 
d First, ij3rj«frr — was engraved. A yf was then interliterated, in lieu of the 
jj left unerased ; but the vowel of gj was not lengthened, as it should have been. 
