410 Bajendralala Mitra —On the Bala and the Sena Rajas of Bengal. 
my commands. They should render to the donees their respective shares, 
privileges, rent, gold and all other dues. Dated the 9th Vaisakha, 
Samvat 17. 
The following are excerpts for those who dread the mandates of virtue : 
The earth has been enjoyed by Sagara and many other kings. The 
fruit (of grants-of-land) belongs to him to whom the land belongs for the 
time. 
The donor of land enjoys heaven for sixty thousand years. He who 
abrogates or prompts others to abrogate such a gift, suffers in hell for a like 
period. 
He who resumes land given by him or others, becoming a worm, rots 
in ordure along with his forefathers. 
Again and again doth Hama entreat all future kings to protect this 
common bridge of virtue. 
Knowing riches and life to be as unsteady as water on a lotus petal, 
no man should intentionally attempt to deprive another of his reputation. 
Bhatta Gurava, the spiritual guide of the king, the proficient in the 
difficult knowledge of God through the Vedanta, versed in all the Vedas and 
the Vedangas, and the most proficient in the performance of sacrificial rites, 
has composed this. Mudgadasa, son of Subhadasa, an inhabitant of Sat- 
samatata, has engraved this edict. 
