1898.] Dr. Hoernle —Two Copperplate Grants of Ratnap&la. 119 
(common) people of the Brahman and other castes, headed by the 
district revenue officers and their clerks, as well as to the other (higher- 
class) people, such as the Rajanakas, Rajaputras, Rajavallabhas, etc., 
and above them the Ranakas, Rajilis, and Rajas ; and, in fact, to all who 
may reside there in future at any time. 
Be it known to you, that this land, together with its houses, 
paddy-fields, dry land, water, cattle-pastures, refuse-lands, etc., of 
whatever kind it may be, inclusive of any place within its borders, 
and freed from all worries on account of the fastening of elephants, 
the fastening of boats, the searching for thieves, the inflicting of 
punishments, the tenant’s taxes, the imposts for various causes, and 
the pasturing of animals, such as elephants, horses, camels, cattle, 
buffalos, goats and sheep, as set forth in this charter :— 31 
(Third Plate: line 58: verse 1.) There was a Brahman in the 
land, Devadatta, of the Parasara Gotra and the Kanva pakha; a leader 
among the Vajasaneyakas, whom on having found to be the foremost 
vedic scholar, the Vedas, in their threefold division 32 , felt themselves 
satisfied. 
(2.) He had a son, Sadgaggadatta, richly endowed with (every) 
virtue, who ever kept the holy fire burning (in his house), and at the 
sight of whose devotion to the six holy duties 33 a multitude of people 
were established in their faith in the whole body of Brahmans from 
Bhrgu downwards. 
(3.) He had a wife, fyamayika, devoted to her husband and 
endowed with (every) virtue, who shines like the streak (crescent or 
quarter) of the moon, pure in form and dispelling the darkness. 
(4.) From her was born a son, Viradatta, a leader among the 
learned in the fastras, and fearful of (committing) any offence, on the 
experience of whose deep-seated piety and formidable intellect the 
Kali age felt, as it were, humbled. 
(5.) To him, on the Visnupadi Sagkranti, 34 in the twenty-fifth 
year of my reign, (this land) is given by me for the sake of the good 
and the glory of my father and of myself. 
21 The sentence which breaks off here, is resumed below in verse 5. 
22 Referring either to the three Vedas, or to the three vedic sciences of hymn, 
sacrifice and song. The reading dkrt-drthayitam, however, is not quite intelligible 
to me. 
?2 The six duties are : studying and teaching the Vedas, offering sacrifices and 
conducting them for others, giving and receiving gifts. 
24 There are four of these ; viz., the instants of the sun’s entrance into the 
four Hindu signs vrsa (taurus), simha (leo), vrscika (scorpion) and kumbha (aquarius) 
which are also the beginnings for the four months Jyestha, Bhddrapcida , Mdrgaqirsci 
and Phdlguna. The first of theso is probably intended here. 
