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[No. 2, 
A. Fiihrer— Three new copper-plate grants of 
(1. 14.) Be it known to yon that,—after having bathed here to¬ 
day in the Ganges, at the illustrious Varanasi (Benares), on the occasion 
of the sun’s entrance into another zodiacal sign after midnight, after 
having duly satisfied the divinities, saints, men, beings, and the groups 
of ancestors, after having worshipped the sun whose splendour is potent 
in rending the veil of darkness, after having praised him whose crest 
is a portion of the moon (S'iva), after having performed adoration of 
Vasudeva (Krishna), the protector of the three worlds, after having 
sacrificed to fire (Agni) an oblation of clarified butter with abundant 
milk, rice and sugar,—we have, in order to increase the (spiritual) merit 
and the fame of our parents and ourself, on Friday the 15th lunar day 
of the bright half of Chaitra in the eleven-hundred-and eighty-fifth 
(Vikrama) Samvat year,—in figures too, on Friday the 15th Chaitra- 
sudi 1185,—given the above-written village with its water and dry land, 
with its mines of iron and salt, with its fisheries, with its betel leaves* 
with its ravines and saline wastes, with and including its groves oj 
rnadhuJca 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 Brahman, the Pandita, the illustrious Bhupati- 
sarmd , son of the Papdita, the illustrious Narapati, grandson of the 
Pandita, the illustrious 3 laliipati of the Mauneya gotra (and) whose three 
pravaras are Gadheya (Visvamitra), Bhargava (Chyavana), and Vaita- 
havya (Arana),—(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) com¬ 
mands, will make over to him the due share of the produce, the money- 
rent, the taxes on aromatic reeds, and so forth. 
(1. 20.) 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.) A conch-shell, a throne, an umbrella, choice horsos, and 
excellent elephants, oh Purandara (Indra), are the royal insignia which 
constitute the reward of giving away land. 
(v. 12.) This earth has been enjoyed by many kings, including 
Sagara and others. To whomsoever belongs the earth for the time 
being, he enjoys the fruit (of such gifts). 
(v. 13.) Ho who robs a cow, a gold coin, or a finger’s breadth of 
land dwells in hell until the dissolution of the universe. 
(v. 14.) The donor of land dwells in heaven for (he space of sixty 
thousand years ; the resuiner, and the abetter thoreof, are doomed to 
abide in hell for a like period. 
