1879.] R. Mitra —Donative Inscription from RajaurgarJi. 161 
barriers from our way to heaven ; for the daily ablution of the image of 
Mahadeva, named Lachchhukesvara after our mother S'ri Laehhuka ; and 
in order to furnish him with sandal, flower, incense offering, lamp, drink 
and minium ; for the reparation of the image and for its supervision ; and to 
furnish it with holy thread, and for the salary of the porters and servants 
attached to the establishment; on this auspicious day of the consecration 
of the divinity, after performing due ablution and touching water, granted, 
in due form in an engraved record, without any reservation, the aforesaid 
village of Vyaghravataka, along with all its environs, pastures, trees, and 
reservoirs of water, along with the right of exacting the usual shares of 
the produce and alms-share, as also the right of collecting the revenues, such 
as fines, the fixed rates, the property of those who die without heirs, along 
with the adjacent fields of Gujjara. Knowing this, from this day and as 
long as the sun and the moon will endure, let the unmolested charge of 
worshipping the divinity in the auspicious temple of Rajyapura remain 
with the pupils and their disciples of S'riman Onkara S'ivacharya of great 
renown and popularity, a regular performer of Vedic rites, disciple of S'rirupa 
S'ivacharya, the pupil of Sri Kanthacharya, of the temple of Gopala Devi 
Tadagapali, and the pupil of Sopuriya family, descended from S'riman Ainar- 
daka. And let this grant be upheld by all future sovereigns, whether born 
in our family or of other dynasties who may reign here. They should not at 
all act detrimentally to this ; on the contrary they should, in compliance with 
our behest, uphold this our pious act, for they too will thereby derive from it 
a share of virtue, for it has been said by Bhagavan Vyasa, the digester of the 
Vedas, ‘ By Sagara and many other kings the world has been ruled ; 
to whomsoever the land belongs for the time being, to him belongs the 
merit of gifts of land. Aditya, Varuna, Vayu, Brahma, Vishnu, Hutasana 
and Mahadeva congratulate and regard with favour the donor of land. The 
donor of land lives in heaven for sixty thousand years, while the revoker 
of the same and the abettor thereof dwell for a like period in hell. Those 
virtuous people who aspire to fame, white and stainless as the moon, or 
long for the blandishments of celestial nymphs, never resume grants made 
by others, for they think the upholding of grants to be even more com¬ 
mendable than making such grants.’” This grant was made by the king 
himself ; it was put in writing by his son ; it was proclaimed by Surapra- 
sada, and engraved by Hari. 
Moreover, for the divinity above mentioned, for the four guardian divi¬ 
nities (Kulika)* around him, and for Vinayaka established within the city, 
* Eight classes of Nagas are usually invoked as guardian divinities, and the 
Kulikas are one of them. 
