Govindachandra Deva of Kanauj. 
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1887.] 
waters, with and including its groves of madhuka and mango trees, 
enclosed gardens, bushes, grass and pasture land, with what is above 
and below, defined as to its four abuttals, up to its proper boundaries, 
to the ThaJckura, the illustrious Bdlddityasarmd , Brahman, son of the 
Thakkura, the illustrious Mahaditya, grandson of the Thakkura , the 
illustrious Bdmodara, of the Parasara clan ( gotra) (and) whose three 
pravaras (ancestors) are Vasishtha, S'akti, and Parasara,—(confirming 
our gift) with (the pouring out) from the palm of our hand, shaped 
like a cow’s ear,* (of) water purified with kusa grass (and) ordaining 
(that it shall be his) as long as moon and sun (endure). Aware (of 
this), you, being ready to obey (our) commands, will make over (to 
him) every kind of income, the due shared of the produce, the money- 
rent {pravanikara'),% the taxes on aromatic reeds (turushkadanda ),§ 
the taxes on royal mace-bearers and eunuchs,|| and so forth. 
(L. 25.) And on this (subject) there are (the following) verses : 
(v. 10.) Both, he who accepts land and he who grants it, are equally 
meritorious, and they go certainly to heaven. 
(v. 11.) Whoever robs land whether given by himself or by others, 
becoming a maggot, sinks with his parents into ordure. 
(v. 12.) The alienator of land-grants cannot expiate his crime even 
(by dedicating to public use) a thousand tanks, by (performing) a hun¬ 
dred horse-sacrifices, and by giving away in charity ten millions of cattle. 
(v. 13.) The donor of land dwells in heaven for the space of 
sixty thousand years ; the resumer, and the abetter thereof, are doomed 
to abide in hell for a like period. 
(L. 28.) This copper-plate grant has been written by the kdyastha , 
the Thakkura , the illustrious Visvarupa. 
No. II. 
Benares Plate (A), of Samvat 1181. 
This plate and the following, No. Ill, were sent by Mr. J. H. 
Rivett-Carnac, C. S., C. I. E., in September 1886, to the Lucknow 
Museum; but as their owner, Sitaram Agarwala of Benares, asked 
the absurd price of Rs. 250, the offer was not accepted. At the re¬ 
quest of the owner, they were forwarded to Surgeon-Major Dr. G. C. 
* Several sikshds prescribe that at the recitation of Vedic texts the right hand 
should be so held as to look like a cow’s ear. 
t Viz., the tenth of the produce. 
X This word has generally been translated with ‘ tolls on quadrivials ’ ; but it 
takes here as elsewhere the place of the usual hiranyci. 
§ This expression has by Dr. F. E. Hall, l. c., been taken to mean “ Muham¬ 
madan amercements.” 
|| These taxes I have not met with anywhere else. 
