178 Prat apach andra Ghoslia— Three Copper-plate Inscriptions. [No. 2, 
Doubt not of your merit, 0 earthly kings ! because these gifts by 
others have been made, for endless merit awaits on him that maintains, rather 
than on him who confers, the same. The donor of land rejoices in heaven for 
a period of sixty thousand years ; but their resumers and their advisers, too, 
dwell in the regions of hell for an equal space of years. Gold is the first 
offspring of Eire; Earth is the favourite. of Vishnu and cows are the 
progeny of the Sun; therefore, whoever makes donations of gold, cows, and 
lands, these three kinds of donors do no more return on earth. Their 
fathers exult, and grandfathers laud (them), when their land-giving pos¬ 
terity thus bring about their redemption. Whoever receives a gift of 
land, and whoso makes a gift of it, both of them for their pious deeds ever 
ascend the heaven. The resumer of land is never absolved, though he 
should consecrate thousands of tanks, perform hundreds of Vajapeya sacri¬ 
fices, and bestow ten millions of cows in charity. Whoever with an evil 
heart, dispossesses another or causes one to do such an act, being beset by 
darkness, he becomes fast entangled in the noose of Yaruna, and degen¬ 
erates into prostrate animals. 
Plate III. Whoso resumes land, whether of his own giving, or 
given by others, becomes a worm of the dirt, and rots there with his 
forefathers. The sun, Varuna, Vishnu, Brahma, the moon, fire, and 
the glorious Qiva, all bless the giver of land. This common bridge of the 
piety of kings should always be supported by you. This is what Mama - 
chandra most expects of all future sovereigns of the earth. Reflecting 
on the transitoriness of human life and fortune, which is like a drop of 
water on the leaves of a lotus, and knowing that “ this world is a fleeting 
show”, let none obliterate the acts of others. 
This Copper-plate document is written, on the eighth day of the 
moonlit-fortnight of Ashddha, in the sixth year of the victorious reign of 
the most venerable, great ruler of rulers and sovereign-lord, the illustrious 
Janamejuya Deva, which to write in figure is Samvat 6 Ashddha, Qudi, by 
Koi Ohosha, son of Vallabha Ghoslia of the Kdyastha caste, in the 
service of the son of Qri Mallddhara Datta , the Chief Minister of Peace 
and War. 
There reigns the illustrious king of the Lunar race Janamejaya by 
name, who in purity and splendour resembles the carbuncle gem, in the 
family of the gemming lords of the earth. Whose valour and bounty are 
boundless as the ocean, and whose lawful gifts have made his name more 
glorious. He resembles the Lord of gods in saving the earth when in 
difficulties, and he is celebrated as a mighty vanquisher of the hosts of his 
enemies. 
