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1861.] Of Two Land-grants, issued bg King Kastin. 
In all directions this village has fosses of demarcation. On the 
north side is the boundary of Mona and that of Piirvabhukti.* To 
Sandhyaputra and the rest the place is assigned, "f privileged from 
the ingress of fortune-tellers and soldiers, and with right to rid itself 
of robbers. 
By virtue of these presents, impediments to the franchises herein 
patented are not to be opposed, even in after times, by those who arise 
in my family, or by those who are maintained by subsistence accruing 
from my shares.^ Thus it is enacted. Let one do otherwise than 
as I have decreed and, though my soul shall have transmigrated into 
another body, I will, with intense vigilance, bring him to destruction. 
‘ Kaus'alya.’ Ought it to be Kas'yapa ?” The sibilants are nowhere inter- 
changed, in these instruments. 
The names of only the first two of the donees enumerated above have place in 
Professor Wilson’s translation ; and the village bestowed away is there repre- 
sented by a blank. On what comes next, and down to the preceptive verses, he 
remarks, premising “ with the boundaries (specified) “ then follow a number 
of unintelligible names of places, after which there is a prohibition to any of 
his successors to revoke the gift.” 
* My decipherment and rendering, at this point, may be liable to amend- 
ment. 
t On the import of two terms which here succeed, in the original, our 
dictionaries shed little light. With respect to the second I have ventured a 
guess, which I am unable to recall, in a paper not by me at this moment. The 
first may define the village under alienation, vertically to the mid-air. 
There is something of experiment in the meanings attached to the remaining 
particulars of the paragraph. See the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 
Vol. VI., p. 541. 
I This is obscure. The royal ‘ fourths’ cannot be designated by these £ shares.’ 
Only at calamitous conjunctures was twenty-five per cent, the price, accredited 
by the Laws of the Manavas, of the safe-guard exercised by Hindu kings. 
It has, of course, occurred to me that signifies 1 feet.’ ‘ Subjects’ would 
then, be intended. But they would hardly be denoted by such a periphrasis as 
we here encounter. More than this, the idea involved savours unconventionally 
of haughtiness. 
If I be not in fault, Hastin refers to the deductions from his revenues, 
appropriated for the sustenance of his relatives. As kindred of majesty, they 
must have had superior opportunities to oppress undetected, means 
‘ portion’ generally, no less than 1 quarter.’ 
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