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Translation

It was given with ablutions; it has been enjoyed three times; it has been protected by noble men : these acts of the kings of olden days never cease.

Sircar's notes

3. See, e. g., Ind. Ant., Vol. VI. p. 26, lines 26-27.

Translation

The sun and the moon, the wind and the fire, the sky, the earth, the waters, the heart and the spirit, and the day, and the night, and the two twilights, know man's deeds, [the act] of dharma.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Carn., Vol. I, revised ed., p. 35; Ind.Ant., Vol. IV, pp. 333-34. See below, Nos. 37-38.

Translation

Like the sun in the sky, they shine with energy, the men who offer earth for [sustaining] a fire established by a brahmin

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 218, verse 39. The Mahābhārata (XIII, 62, 46) has it with dīpyanti tejasā bhuvi in the first half and dadāti vasudhāṁ sphītāṁ ye veda-viduṣi dvije in the second. Ballāla’s Dānasāgara (op. cit., p. 332) seems to attribute the stanza to the Viṣṇudharmottara.

Translation

Āditya, Varuṇa, Viṣṇu, Brahmā, Soma, Hutāśana, Śulpāṇis and the Lord rejoice the land-giver.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Pitaraḥ, etc. See No. 4, note.

Sircar's notes

1. See, e. g., Ep. Ind., Vol. VIII, p. 142, text lines 33 f. Often abhinandanti is found instead of pratinandanti and sometimes Hutāsana-purogamāḥ (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXX, p. 278, text line 14) in the second foot. Sometimes we have Ādityā Vasavo Rudrā in the first and Nārāyaṇaś=ca bhagavān in the third foot (Ep. Carn., Vol.III, No. Sr. 15). The stanza occurs in the Mahābhārata, XIII. 62, 48; Atrisaṁhitā, verse 330 (with abhinandati); Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, 16 (with abhinandati, and Vahni° for Viṣṇu°). Ballāla's Dānasāgara (op. cit„ p. 316) attributes the stanza to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati. A similar stanza is Pitaraḥ pitṛ-lokasthā deva-loke divaukasaḥ | santarpayanti dātārāṁ bhūmeḥ prabhavatāṁ vara || (Ep. Ind„ Vol XII, p. 97, lines 28-29).

Translation

Gold is Agni's first born son, Earth Viṣṇu's wife and cows Sun's daughters; the one who gives gold, cows and land, the worlds belongs to him by these three kinds of gifts.

Sircar's notes

2. CII, Vol. III, pp. 194, 198, 296. Sometimes we have loka-trayaṁ tena bhaved=dhi dattaṁ (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 60‚ text lines 51-52). The same stanza occurs in the Mahābhārata, III, 199, 128, Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 31, and Saṁvartasaṁhitā, verse 74, with lokās=trayas=tena bhavanti dattā°, while the Padma Purāṇa, VI, 33, 32, has the quarter as teṣām=anantaṁ phalam=aśnuvīta. Ballāla's Ḍānasāgara (op. cit„ p. 317) attributes it to Saṁvaṛta.

Translation

Even after offering sacrifices such as the Agniṣṭoma etc, whose fees are substantial, one does not obtain the fruit (obtained) after giving earth.

Sircar's notes

3. Ep.Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 218, verse 41. The second half is sometimes read as yaṣṭā bhavati rājendra yo dadāti vasundharām (Ep.Ind. Vol. XXV, p. 278, text lines 12-13). Sometimes we have the stanza as Agniṣṭoma-prabhṛtibhir=iṣṭvā yajñaiḥ sa-dakṣiṇaiḥ| na tat=phalam=avāpnoti bhūmi-dānād=yad=aśnute || (Ind. Ant., Vol. XIV, p. 319, text lines 108-09) while the Mahābhārata (XIII, 62, 73) shows this reading with ca sv-āpta- dakṣiṇaiḥ in the second foot.

Translation

Alas, o son of Raghu, the best of kings, during a life of seven kalpa I can’t see or hear the man who steals the gift for his own purpose.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Carn., Vol. IX, Dv. No. 15; Vol. X, Goribidnur No. 3; cf. Vol. XIV, Gu. No. 126.

Translation

Taxing a tax-exempt land is equal to the slaughter of ten million cows, but exempting a taxable resource from taxes allows us to reach the ultimate goal.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Akara-kara-kāras=tu, etc. See No. 8‚ note. Akareṣu, etc. See No. 8, note.

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Carn., Vol. V, Belur No. 74. Sometimes we have : Akara-kara-kāras=tu go-sahasra-vadhaḥ smṛtaḥ |nivṛtta-kara-kāras=tu go-koṭi-phalam=aśnute (ibid., Vol. VII, Sk. No. 323). For slight variations, see ibid., Vol. XII. Tp. No. 28. Ibid., Vol. XII, Ck. No. 42 has : Akareṣu karaṁ kṛtvā bhīṣayitvā ca go-vrajam | sva-vaṁśaḥ kāla-sūtre ca kramaśo bhuvi pātyate ||

Translation

He who steals a land-gift will be born twelve times in darkness, ten times as a boar, a thousand times as a leper.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Andhakaḥ, etc. See No. 9, note.

Sircar's notes

1. Chhabra, Antiquities of Chamba State, II, p. 177. Sometimes we have Andhakaḥ sapta janmāni in the first foot and svayaṁ datt-āpahārakāḥ in the last.

Translation

Having considered that the fortune is as transient as a drop of water on a lotus petal, and having thought that all is an illustration, let the glorious acts made by others not be destroyed.

Sircar's notes

2. Ep. Ind., Vol. XIX, p. 45, text lines 31-32. See No. 71 below.

Translation

Anyone who is enriched by a gift that comes from someone else, or even from another gotra, is tainted with the great sins:

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Carn., Vol. XIV, IIg. No. 143.

Translation

Sin committed in a foreign field disappears in a sacred field. Sin committed in a sacred field remains as a sticking plaster.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Anityāni śarīrāṇi, etc. See No. 12, note.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Carn., Vol. VII, Sk. No. 63. For vajra-lepaṁ bhaviṣyati in the last foot, see ibid., Vol. XII, Tp. No. 28. This stanza is not specially related to dāna as also the verse : Anityāni śarīrāṇi vibhavaṁ n=aiva śāśvatam | nityaṁ sannihito mṛtyuḥ kartavyo dharma-saṁgrahaḥ||(A. R. Ep. 1946-47, No. B 208).

Translation

Amongst the sins committed in the past and in the future, [there are the cases when] the earth has been taken in an improper manner or taken in a good way has been stolen : [in both these cases] one burns during seven generations.

Sircar's notes

5. Ind. Ant., Vol. XVII, p. 12 (text lines 25-26) reads the second and third feet as anyāyena tu hāritā and harato hārayataś=ca. The Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā (verse 36) has the stanza with: yair=narair=apahāritā in the second foot and harato hārayantaś=ca hanyus=te saptamaṁ kulam in the second half. Cf. Padma Purāṇa, VI, 33, 34. See below. No. 100.

Translation

The one who has stolen what was given to his relatives is the worst and the most malevolent : as a dog, he will eat the vomits of others instead his own.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Anyaiś ca charditaṁ, etc. See No. 14, note.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Carn., vol. III, ML. No. 121. Sometimes we have : Anyais=tu charditaṁ kṣudraiḥ śvabhiś=ca charditaṁ na tu| tataḥ kaṣṭas=tato nīcaḥ svayaṁdatt-āpahārakaḥ || (Ind. Ant., Vol. IV, p. 334).

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Śiva-putro, etc. See No. 15, note. Aṣṭāviṁśati, etc. See No. 15, note.

Sircar's notes

7. Ep. Carn., Vol XIII, p. 22. Cf. Śāstreṣu pāpīnāṁ dṛṣṭaṁ prāyaścittaṁ dvijottama | na dṛṭṣaṁ bhūmi-hartṛṇām prāyaścittaṁ *dvija kvacit || Śivaputro jano dātā pālakah punya-bhāk=param l lopakṛc=ca makāpāpī vicārya=aivam prapālayet || (Khare, op. cit., p. 34); Aṣṭāviṁśati-kotyo yā narakāṇāṁ su-dāruṇāh | kramena tāsu pacyante deva-brahma-sva-hāriṇaḥ || (Ep. Ind.,Vol. XXXI. p. 110).

Translation

Whoever gives to a vipra even a small piece of land in his possession will rejoice in heaven for sixty thousand years.

Sircar's notes

1. Ind. Ant., Vol.XIV, p. 73.

Translation

Sircar's notes

2. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 75.

Translation

Even in the unfit saṁsāra, protecting the glorious deeds made by another or by ourselves gives the double fruit in this life.

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XIX, p. 45, text lines 30-31.

Translation

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 277, text lines 22-25; cf. Vol. XXXVI, p. 46.

Translation

The Fathers are applauding and the Grand-Fathers are hopping up and down [when they can say] ‘A giver of land is born within our lineage, sure, he will deliver us!'

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

nandanti tasya pitaraḥ, etc. See No. 20, note. Ānandanti ca, etc. See No. 20, note.

Sircar's notes

5. CII, Vol. III. p. 119. Sometimes we have nandanti tasya pitaraḥ or nṛtyanti pitaras=tasya (Ep. Ind.,Vol. XXIX, p. 194, text line 35; Vol. XXV, p. 218, verse 38) in the first foot and valgayanti for pravalganti, or valganti ca and sa naḥ santārayiṣyati (ibid., Vol. XXV, p. 60, text lines 52-53; p. 218, verse 38). For Ānandanti ca pitaraḥ in the first foot, sec Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 164, text line 20. The stanza occurs in the Padma Purāṇa, VI‚ 33, 17 (with pitaro varṇayanti and bhūmi-dātā kule); Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 17 (with praharṣanti pitāmahāḥ); SkandaPurāṇa, op. cit., verse 24 (with kathayanti pitāmahāḥ and so= 'smān=santārayiyṣati ). Ballāla (Dānasāgara, op. cit., p. 317, with pravadanti and so= 'smān=santārayiyṣati ) and Aparārka (Yājñavalkīya-Dharmaśāstra-nibandha, Anandasrama Press, p. 370) assign it to Bṛhaspati and the Viṣṇudharmottara respectively.

Translation

The fruit of thousand horse-sacrifices, that of thousand Vājapeya sacrifices, and of thousand solemn sacrifices of the soma pauṇḍarika are worth half that of a gift of land.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 324, text lines 26-27. The second half is also given as kṛtvā yat=phalam-\-āpnoti bhūmi-dānat=tad=aśnute(Ep. Carn., Vol. X, Malur No. 57).

Translation

The long life, sons, the wealth, the felicity, the happiness, an indestructible royalty, the supremacy, the glory and the sky, it is what is obtained by a land-giver.

Sircar's notes

1. Ind. Ant.,VoI. XII. p. 127.

Translation

Land has been given by several kings beginning with Sagara. Whoever holds land at a given time, to him does the fruit belong

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Iyaṁ rāja-śatair-dattā, etc. Sec No. 23, note. manu-prabhṛtibhir mānyaiḥ, etc. Sec No. 23, note. Rājabhir=bahubhir=dattā, etc. See No. 23, note. Yānti kālena, etc. See No. 23, note. Yas=tu pālayate, etc. See No. 23, note.

Sircar's notes

2. CII, Vol. III. pp. 96, 104, 108, 115, 119, 122, 127, 133, etc., where this stanza is found together with Ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrāṇi, etc. (No. 123), which is also noticed in some cases without this one (cf. ibid., pp. 238, 247). Sometimes dattā (ibid., p.296) appears instead of bhuktā and bahubhiś=ānupālitā (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI, p. 80, text line 43), or bhujyate ca punaḥ punaḥ (ibid., p. 66, text line 32), or rājabhiś=ca punaḥ punaḥ (ibid., Vol. XV, p. 1-39, verse 13), or bhujyate ca narādhipaiḥ (ibid., Vol. XVII. p. 304, verse 23 )‚ or bahudhā vasudh-ādhipaiḥ (ibid., Vol. XXXI, p. 93; often vasudhā wrongly for bahudhā— ibid., Vol. XXI p. 25, text line 10) for rājabhiḥ Sagar-ādibhiḥ. occasionally we have : Rājabhir=bahubhir=dattā (Iyaṁ rāja-śatair=dattā—ibid., Vol. XXII. p. 161, text line 22) dīyate ca punaḥ punaḥ (ibid., Vol. XX, p. 159) in the first half which sometimes also reads as Manu-prabhṛtibhir=mānyair=bhuktā yady=api rājabhiḥ (ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 75, text lines 11 –12). For pārthivaiḥ instead of rājabhiḥ, see Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 267. The stanza occurs in the PadmaPurāṇa, VI, 33, 26-27; BhaviṣyaPurāṇa, IV, 164, 22 (with bhuktā, for dattā); SkandaPurāṇa, op. cit., verse 25 (with rājabhiḥ pṛthivi tv=iyam);Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 26; also Vṛddha-Gautama, according to Aparārka, op. cit., p. 541. Ballāla (op. cit., pp. 316-17) attributes the stanza(with dattā for bhuktā) to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati. Cf. two analogous stanzas : Yas=tu pālayate bhūmiṁ bhūmipālas=tath=etaraḥ | sa dātuḥ phalam=āpnoti samaṁ dīrghaṁ ca jīvati || Yānti kālena rājāno mahī punar=avasthitā | tad=stāṁ yo yadā bhuṅkte sa tadā phalam=aśnute l| (Ep. Ind., Vol.XXXVI, pp. 18, 46).

Translation

What can I say? Here is a summary : health is short and wealth instable, but dharma remains in the two worlds.

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 216, text lines 25–26.

Translation

Among the best sacrificial vessels, among the best holy places, among the best occasions, may the earth-gift be a way out of the infinite and deep ocean of rebirth !

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 60‚ text lines 53-54.

Translation

In this world, there is no gift such as the gift of land. The land-giver obtains all his desires.

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Ind., Vol VIII. p. 303, text lines 23-24.

Translation

The land-giver, the pure one who orders a land-gift and the one who will protect it, all these men go to heaven.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 170, line 121.

Translation

There has never been and will never be a gift superior to the gift of land, nor has there ever been or will ever be a sin [superior] to the seizing of the same.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Bhūmi-dāna-samaṁ dānaṁ na, etc. See No. 28, note.

Sircar's notes

7. See, e. g., Ep. Ind., Vol. VIII, p. 235, text lines 26-28. Sometimes we have iha-loke na vidyate for the second quarter and yah prayacchati bhūmiṁ hi sarva-kāmān=dadāti saḥ in the second half (ibid., Vol. XXIV, p. 303, text lines 23-24). For Bhūmi-dāna-samaṁ at the beginning and dānena yat=phalaṁ proktaṁ pālanena tato=dhikam in the second half, see Ep. Ind., Vol. XIX, p. 42, text lines 25-26.

Translation

The one who receives a land and the one who offers a land, both of them are men with meritorious deeds who are surely going to heaven.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Dātā ca preraka°, etc. See No. 29, note. Upadeśī ca dātā ca, etc. See No. 29, note.

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 343, text lines 30-31; p. 348, text lines 24-25. Sometimes we have yas=tu for yaś=ca (ibid., Vol. XI, p. 312) and niyatau (ibid., Vol. XXVIII. p. 292, text line 26) or dvāv=etau (ibid., Vol. XXII. p. 194, text line 19) for niyataṁ. The stanza is found in the Padma Purāṇa, VI. 33, 35-36; Vṛddha-Hāritasmṛti, VII, 164; Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 33 (with bhūmiṁ yasya in the second foot). It is attributed to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati in Ballāla's Dānasāgara (op. cit., p. 317), to the Kūrma Purāṇa in the Dānacandrikā (with tāv==ubhau puruṣau loke sūrya-maṇḍala-bhedinau) and to Bṛhaspati in Halāyudha's Brāhmaṇasarvasva (IHQ., Vol. VI, p. 777). See also the Mitākṣarā on the Yājñavalkyasmṛti, II, 114. A verse modified from this stanza (cf. also No. 27) seems to be : Upadeśī ca dātā ca niyatau svarga-vāsinau | upadeśi prathamaṁ yāti paścād=dātā Dhanañjaya || (A. R. Ep., 1946–47, N°. B 205). Another such stanza is Dātā ca pierakaś=c=aiva ye dharma-pratipālakāḥ | te sarve punya-karmāṇo niyataṁ svarga-gāminaḥ || (Ind. Ant., Vol. XI, p. 243, text lines 4o-41).

Translation

The givers of earth rejoice in heaven, and alas, they fall, the lords who steal the earth, vile men, into the hell. Having observed this double and balancing fortune, may you work for the longevity desired by his Majesty !

Sircar's notes

2. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI, p. 221, text lines 21-24. The stanza is sometimes quoted separately from the Vyāsa-gīta group of verses (ibid. Vol. XXXIV, p. 114).

Translation

There is no better gift than the gift of earth and the preservation is better than the gift. By protecting the very well-granted earth all the kings starting with Nṛga have reached the triple heaven.

Sircar's notes

3. CII, Vol. III, p. 115. text lines 22-23.

Translation

The man who enjoys the property of a Brahmin through (a breach of ) trust, he burns his family to the seventh generation and the man who enjoy it by force, (burns) ten ancestors and ten descendants !

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 102 text lines 33-34. Ibid Vol. XXV, p. 219, verse 52 has it as : Brahma-svaṁ dur-anujñātaṁ bhuktaṁ hanti tripuruṣam | prasahya tu balād bhuktaṁ daśa pūrvān daśāparān || while the second half is given in Ind. Ant., Vol. XV, p. 176, text lines 48-49 as : tad eva cauryarūpeṇa dahatyā-candra-tārakam. For variations, see Ep. Carn. Vol. X‚ Mulbagal No. 157.

Translation

The Vehicles and forces maintained with the wealth misappropriated from the brahmins break down at the time of battle like bunds made of sand.

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Carn., Vol. III. Sr. 12.

Translation

Don’t think about the property of a brahmin, even if his vital breath is gone to his throat ! All the things burnt by fire grow up (again) but one thing burnt by a brahmin never grows again!

Sircar's notes

1. Ind. Ant., Vol. XIX, p. 310, text lines 30-32. The first half of the stanza is found in the Bṛhāspatisaṁhitā, verse 45 (with ratiṁ for matiṁ).

Translation

Unsteady is the Whealth, as well as are the breaths and the youth of the life; indeed within the moving to and fro saṁsāra the only firm thing is dharma.

Sircar's notes

2. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 194, text lines 17-18.

Translation

Prosperity is unsteady, youth is shattered in an instant, life is a step away from death, yet this counts for little when it comes to achievement in the next world. Alas! that which works miracles for men requires effort!

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII, p. 7o, text lines 9-11.

Translation

Thus, the Moon and the Sun, the Earth, the enligthening Sky, the Wind, the Stars as well the Fire, along with the king of dharma,

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Tisraḥ sandhyā , etc. See No. 38.

Sircar's notes

4. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 121. See above No. 2.

Translation

the three twilights, the three Vedas, the triad Gods, the three fires, ah ! during the night, all of these are known as the witnesses of the gift!

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Tisraḥ sandhyā , etc. See No. 38.

Sircar's notes

4. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 121. See above No. 2.

Translation

The purāṇas whose wisdom is undoubtful, tell that what is born from the protection is really superior to the gift, it is the best dharmic act among the dharmic ones! Hence, may that the earth be given to a twice born knowing the śruti and born in a very pious lineage and may your unique thought be to protect it !

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Ind., Vol. IX, p. 173, text lines 12-14.

Translation

Bliss and misfortune are both the fruit of the gift and the protection. What's the point? After having left the sky, one falls again in the hell.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Dānaṁ vā, etc. See No. 40, note. Rakṣā, etc. See No. 40, note.

Anuṣṭubh

Between gift and preservation, preservation is better than gift : by gift one obtains Heaven but by preservation one never falls again.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI, pp. 221-22, text lines 24-25. We have Rakṣā for Dāna at the beginning in Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIII, p. 121, line 20; cf. ibid., Vol. XXXIV, p. 114 (where the stanza has been quoted seperately from the Vyāsa-gita group of verses). The second half is sometimes quoted as dānāt=svargam=avāpnoti pālanād=acyutaṁ(śāṅkaram in Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII, Tl. No. 73) padam and we have madhye for tāvat in the first foot (Ep. Ind., Vol. XVI, p. 351). Sometimes we have Dānaṁ vāpālanaṁ v=ātra and dānā c=chreyo='nupālanam in the first and second feet (Ep. Carn., Vol. II, Nos., 253, 327; Vol. III, My. Nos. 7, 32). The third foot sometimes reads dānād=lndratvam=āpnoti(Ep. Ind., Vol. XIV, p. 104, text lines 103-105).

Translation

He lives very high in the sky, the man who makes a gift as well as the one who authorizes it, He firmly cooks in the Raurava the one who steals a land or the one who contributes to this theft

Sircar's notes

7. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 127.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Dātā daś=ānugṛhṇāti daśa, etc. See No. 42, note.

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., vol. XVII, p. 3o3, verse 2I. Sometimes we have : Dātā daś=anugṛhṇāti daśa hanti tathā kṣipan I pūrva-dattāṁ haran=hhūmiṁ narakāy=opagachcati 11 (Ind. Ant., Vol. XlV, p. 319, text lines 111-12).

Translation

The gifts which have been here granted by former princes producing virtue, wealth and fame are comparable to the remains of offerings to the gods.What good man could resume them? (translation EI24_12, p.217)

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Yān=īha dāridya°, etc. See No. 43, note. Yān=īha dattāni, etc. See No. 43, note.

Sircar's notes

2. CII, Vol. III, p. 180, text lines 73-74; Ep. Ind., Vol. III. p. 322, text lines 25-26; Vol. XXII, p. 109, text line 63; p. 120, text line 60; etc. Sometimes we have Yān=īha dattāni and dharmāya(Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII, p. 134), purātanāni for purā narendraiḥ(Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, p. 64), Yān=īha dāridya-bhayān=narendrair° and dānāni (dhanāni in Ind. Ant., Vol. V, p. 207 text line 12) dharmāyatanī-kṛitāni, nirbhukta(nirvānta; ibid., Vol. VI, p. 16, text line 19)-mālya-pratimāni tāni(Ep. Ind., Vol. I, p. 88; Vol. XXI, p. 211), etc. For nirmālyavānti, see Ep. Ind., Vol. XVIII. p. 323, text line 21; for nirmālyavat=tāni ca mānitāni, cf. Ind. Ant., Vol. VI, p. 56, text line 11, and nirmālya-tulyāni bhavanti tāni, ibid., Vol. XVII, p. 122, text line 49. The stanza is found in the Skanda Purāṇa, op. cit., verse 36, with Yān=īha dattāni punar=dhanāni in the first foot and audāryato vipra-niveditāni in the third.

Translation

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Carn., Vol. V, Belur No. 58.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Deva-śāsana-loptāro, etc. See No. 45, note. Devasya, etc. See No. 45, note. Vipra-dravy-āpahartāro, etc. See No. 45, note. Vipra-grāme, etc. See No. 45, note. Vipra-grāmeṣu, etc. See No. 45, note. Yaṁ vināśayituṁ, etc. See No. 45, note. Yath-oktaiḥ pañcabhir=ghorair=mahā°, etc. Sec No. 45, note.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Cam., Vol. V, Hassan No. 115. Sometimes we have Vipra-dravy-āpahartāro deva-dravy-āpahārakāḥ | ............ n=ātra saṁśayaḥ || (ibid., Ghannarayapatna No. 259) or Deva-śāsana-loptāro deva-dravy-āpakāriṇah| pacyante narake rakte janma-janma na saṁśayaḥ|| or Devasya śāsanaṁ ye tu lumpanti pāpa-karmāṇaḥ | patanti narake ghore sa-putra-paśu-bāndhavaiḥ || (ibid., Sb. No. 191). A few similar stanzas are : Vipra-grāmeṣu yaḥ kuryād=anyāyena karaṁ karaiḥ | ........naro bhuṅkte narakān=kalpa-pañcasu|| and Vipra-grāme kar-ādāne yo='numantā sa pāpa-kṛt | .........brahma-haty-āyutaṁ śatam || (ibid., Channarayapatna No. 259). See also Yaṁ vināśayituṁ, etc., in Vol. XII, Ck. No. 42. Cf. Yath-oktaiḥ pañcabhir=ghorair=mahāpātaka-vahnibhiḥ| nirdagdhā narakaṁ yānti brahmadey-āpahārinah || (R. S. Panchamukhi, Karnatak inscriptions, Vol. II, p. 3)

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5. Ep.Ind., Vol. XIII, p. 173. Sometimes we have gavāṁ for gavāṁ and praṇaṣṭāṁ for pranaṣḷaṁ (R. S. Panchamukhi, Karnatak Inscriptions, Vol. II, p. 102),

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1. Ep. Carn., Vol. XII, Tin. No. 37.

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2. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 121.

Translation

Through dharma grow kingship, glory and earth; thanks to dharma, the Fathers become satisfied; thanks to dharma, Gods are pleased.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Tasmād=dharmaḥ, etc. See No. 50. Brāhmaṇebhyaḥ, etc. See No. 55, note.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI. p. 343. verse 43.

Translation

Therefore dharma done by oneself or by another should be protected with effort by the earth-ruler who wishes the two worlds.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Tasmād=dharmaḥ, etc. See No. 50. Brāhmaṇebhyaḥ, etc. See No. 55, note.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI. p. 343. verse 43.

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3. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 344, verses 45-46.

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5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XIX, p. 213, text lines 34-35.

Translation

The land given to brahmin (vipra) should not be enjoyed nor taken for taxes ; it is in this world the unique prosperous thing for all the kings.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Ind., Vol. XVI, p. 351, text lines 78-80; p. 318. Sometimes we have bhogyā (ibid., p. 253). The same stanza occurs in the Skanda Purāṇa, op. cit., verse 39.

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7. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 324, line 33. The same stanza occurs again in lines 27-28 of the same epigraph with ūrdhvaṁ yānti mṣtā divi in the last quarter.

Translation

The one who steals a single cow, one piece of gold or a half aṅgula of land will stay in hells up to the dissolution of the created things.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

gām ekāṁ ca, etc. See No. 55, note. gām ekāṁ ratnikā°, etc. See No. 55, note. gām ekāṁ svarṇa-raktmi, etc. See No. 55, note. hiraṇyam ekam, etc. See No. 55, note. Kanyām=ekām, etc. See No. 55, note. Suvarṇam=ekaṁ, etc. See No. 55, note.

Sircar's notes

8. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI, p. 128, verse in. Ep. Carn.,Vol. VI. Kp. No. 53 has Brāhmaṇebhyaḥ pradattāyā° at the beginning. Sometimes we have ca for vā and Hiraṇyam =ekaṁ gām=ekām(Ep. Ind.,Vol. XXVIII, p. 114, text line 28); āpnoti or āyāti (ibid., p. 292); ā-hūta° or ā-bhūti for ā-bhūta° (see, e.g., ibid., Vol. XXIX, p. 57, text line 44; Vol. XIX, p. 19, text line 33); also Suvarṇam=ekaṁ gām=ekāṁ (or Gām=ekāṁ ca suvarṇaṁ ca bhūmer=apy =eka°) and haranto hārayanta=cha(or hṛtvā narakam=āyāti, or haran=naraka-vāsī syāt—Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIII, p. 212, text lines 56-57) dahaty=ā=saptamaṁ kulam (ibid., Vol.XXXI. pp. 248, 281; or yāvac=candra-divākarau—vogel, Antiquities of Chamba State, I. p. 167). The first half is sometimes given as : Kanyām=ekāṁ gavām=ekām bhūmer=ardhārdham=aṅgulam (Ind. Ant.,Vol. XII, p. 203). Sometimes we have Gām=ekāṁ svarṇa-rakliñ=ca(Ep.lnd.,Vol. XXVIII, p. 67, text line 38) or Gām=ekāṁ ratnikām=ekām (ibid., Vol. XIII, p. 251, text lines 232-33). The stanza is found in the Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 40 (with rundhan for haran). Caṇḍeśvara's Gṛhastharatnākara (Bibliotheca Indica, p. 514) assigns it to Yama while Viśvarūpa (Bālakrīḍā, Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, on the Yājñavalkyasmṛti, III, 252) quotes the second half as : apahṛtya dvij-āgrebhyo na cirād=vadhyate dhruvam.

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1. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 97. Ep. Carn.,Vol. VIII. Tl. No. 5 has dharmasaṁsthāpane.

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2. Ep. Ind., Vol. IV. p. 197, lines 31 -32.

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3. Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, p. 121.

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4. Ep. Ind.,Vol. XIII, p. 208, text lines 6-8.

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This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Rājāno rāja-kulyāś=ca, etc. See No. 61.

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p.219, verses 53-54. For slight variations, see Ep. Carn.,Vol. XI, Dg. No. 28.

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Rājāno rāja-kulyāś=ca, etc. See No. 61.

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p.219, verses 53-54. For slight variations, see Ep. Carn.,Vol. XI, Dg. No. 28.

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6. Chhabra, Antiquities of Chamba State, II, p. 179.

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Yatra yogīśvaraḥ, etc. See No. 63, note.

Sircar's notes

7. Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII. Tl. Nos. 6, 46, 47. This stanza is usually preceded by the verse : Yatra yogīśvaraḥ kuryāc=Chiva-liṅg-ārcanaṁ sakṛt| vasanti tatra tirthāni sarvāṇi satataṁ (or saptakaṁ) Guha ||

Translation

The foolish man who seizes or makes [a land] seized, covered by obscurity and bound by Varuṇa’s noose, he will be born again in an animal womb.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Hareta, etc. See No. 64, note. Hartā hārayitā bhūmeḥ, etc. See No. 64, note.

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., vol. III, p. 343, text lines 32-33; pp. 348-49, text lines 26-27; p. 353, text lines 49-5o; ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 50. often we have hārayanteor hāryate for hārāyed°, bhūmiṁ for yas=tu, subaddho for sa baddho and yoniṣu for yoniṁ ca. The first foot is sometimes read as Hartā hārayitā bhūmeḥ(Ind. Ant., vol. XIV., p. 255, text lines 30-31). For Hareta at the beginning of the first, and sa-vaṁśo at that of the second half, see Ind. Ant., Vol. V, p. 56. The Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā (verse 37) has the stanza with hārayed°, sa vadhyo and °yonisu. Cf. Mahābhārata, XIII, 62, 75.

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2. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 121.

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Vanaṁ, etc. See No. 66, note.

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 219, verse 51. The first half is given sometimes as : Vanaṁ vana-caro vahnir=dahan=mūlāni rakṣati (cf. Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII. Tl. Nos. 130 and 133).

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4. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIII. p. 229, verse 17.

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5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, p. 313. The second half is sometimes read as: narakān=na nivartante yāvad=ā-bhūta-saṁplavam (ibid., Vol. XIII, p. 281).

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6. Ep.Ind., Vol. XXXIII. p- 213, verse 9.

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7. Ep. Carn., Vol. III, TN. No. 63; Sr. No. 64.

Translation

Having considered that fortune and human life were as transient as a drop of water on a lotus petal, and having thought that the entire world is an illustration, let the glorious acts made by others not be destroyed by men.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Taḍit-taraṅga-bahulām, etc. See No. 71, note.

Sircar's notes

8. Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 343, text lines 37-39; p. 349, text lines 32-34; etc. For the third foot, we have occasionally at ṅimala-manobhir=ātmanīnair° (ibid., Vol. XXII, p. 109, text lines 65; p. 186, text line 62; cf. ātma-linai° in Vol. XXXII, p. 134). The sense of this popular stanza is rarely conveyed in the following verse : Taḍit-taraṅga-bahulāṁ śriyaṁ mat vā ca mantyānām | na dharma-sthitayaḥ sadbhir=yuktā loke vilopitum || (Select Inscriptions, p. 364, text lines 23-24). See also No. 10 above.

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1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII, p. 54, text lines 55–56.

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2. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII, p. 70, text lines 2I–22.

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3. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 97, text lines 52-53. We have also dharma for karma (Ind. Ant.,Vol. IV, p. 276),

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4. Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII, Tl. No. 5.

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5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXIII. p. 213, verse 6.

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6. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 186. The word sva-hasta here seems to mean the donor's signature in approval of a grant.

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Santarpayati dātāram, etc. See No. 78, note.

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8. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 156, text lines 30-33.

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Pañca paśv-anṛte hanti, etc. See Nos. 80-81, note. Śāstreṣu, etc. See No. 15, note. Śatam=aśv-ānṛte hanti, etc. Sec Nos. 80-81, note. hanti jātān=ajatāṁś=ca, etc. See No. 81.

Sircar's notes

1. Mys. Arch. Rep., 1910, paragraphs 47-50. The second stanza is sometimes found as : Hanti jātān=ajātāṁś=ca bhūmy=arthe yo='nṛtaṁ vadet | sa baddho vāruṇaiḥ pāśais=tiryag=yonyāṁ tu jāyate ||(Ep. Ind., vol. XIX, p. 213, text lines 33-34). Cf. Mahābhārata, Udyoga-parvan, Calcutta ed., Chapter 35, verses 33-34; Kumbakonam ed., Chapter 35, verses 44-45, where the first foot of the first stanza and the second foot of the second read respectively as Pañca paśv-anṛte hanti and hirany=ārthe='nṛtaṁ vadan, while the second stanza ends with vadeḥ instead of vadet. For the first verse, cf. Rāmāyaṇa, IV, 34. 9: Śatam=aśv-ānṛte hanti sahasraṁ tu gav-ānṛte |ātmānaṁ svajanaṁ hanti puruṣaḥ puruṣ-ānṛte || See also Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 43 ff. : Pañca kany-ānṛte hanti daśa hanti gav-ānrte | śatam=aśv-ānṛte hanti sahasraṁ puruṣ-ānṛite || hanti jātān=ajātāṁś=ca hirany-ārthe='nṛtaṁ vadet | sarvaṁ bhūmy-anṛte hanti māsma bhūmy=anṛtaṁ vadīḥ|| Sometimes we have janiṣyān for ajātān.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Pañca paśv-anṛte hanti, etc. See Nos. 80-81, note. Śāstreṣu, etc. See No. 15, note. Śatam=aśv-ānṛte hanti, etc. Sec Nos. 80-81, note. hanti jātān=ajatāṁś=ca, etc. See No. 81.

Sircar's notes

1. Mys. Arch. Rep., 1910, paragraphs 47-50. The second stanza is sometimes found as : Hanti jātān=ajātāṁś=ca bhūmy=arthe yo='nṛtaṁ vadet | sa baddho vāruṇaiḥ pāśais=tiryag=yonyāṁ tu jāyate ||(Ep. Ind., vol. XIX, p. 213, text lines 33-34). Cf. Mahābhārata, Udyoga-parvan, Calcutta ed., Chapter 35, verses 33-34; Kumbakonam ed., Chapter 35, verses 44-45, where the first foot of the first stanza and the second foot of the second read respectively as Pañca paśv-anṛte hanti and hirany=ārthe='nṛtaṁ vadan, while the second stanza ends with vadeḥ instead of vadet. For the first verse, cf. Rāmāyaṇa, IV, 34. 9: Śatam=aśv-ānṛte hanti sahasraṁ tu gav-ānṛte |ātmānaṁ svajanaṁ hanti puruṣaḥ puruṣ-ānṛte || See also Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 43 ff. : Pañca kany-ānṛte hanti daśa hanti gav-ānrte | śatam=aśv-ānṛte hanti sahasraṁ puruṣ-ānṛite || hanti jātān=ajātāṁś=ca hirany-ārthe='nṛtaṁ vadet | sarvaṁ bhūmy-anṛte hanti māsma bhūmy=anṛtaṁ vadīḥ|| Sometimes we have janiṣyān for ajātān.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Ek–āhany=api, etc. See No. 82, note.

Sircar's notes

2. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 97, text lines 50–51. Similar style is noticed in the stanza: Ek-āhany=apiKauntya bhūmistham=udakaṁ kuru | tāraya purvakulāni sapta sapta ca sapta ca || (A.R. Ep., 1946-47, No. B 205).

Translation

The man lost by sin, with his intoxicated soul, who steals men out of greed, will roast in the dreadful hell for countless kalpas

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 75.

Translation

Men can survive a poison made of copper or stone, but in the three worlds no one can survive [a steal of] a brahmin property.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 325, line 37. The second half has been given in Ep. Carn., Vol. XII, Tp. No. 18 as : deva-svaṁ triṣu lokeṣu na jīrṇam=iti viśrutam.

Translation

Have no doubt about the fruit of what is given by another, o sons of Pṛthu, the fruit is eternal both for him who gives in person and for him who protects what is given by another.

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 343, text lines 25-26; p. 348, text lines 18–20; p. 353, text lines 44-45. Sometimes mā bhūta°, para-dān-ānu° and °pālanam, te para-datt=eti parthiva and sva-dattād—adhikaṁ puṇyaṁ (ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 257, text line 150). etc. The second half sometimes reads as : sva-dānāt=para-dānasya tasmāc=chreyo='nupālanam (ibid., Vol. XXXIV. p. 49, text lines 16-18) .

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6. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 311, text lines 10-11; p. 257. This stanza is generally found in the grants of the Imperial Gaṅgas of orissa. Sometimes we have bhūmeḥ for bhūpaiḥ.

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1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI, p. 191. See Nos. 89 and 90.

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2. Mys. Arch. Rep., 1912, paragraph 108. The stanza is quoted from Murāri's Anargharāghava as already indicated above.

Translation

To the future kings on earth born in my lineage or born from another royal lineage, whose minds are deprived of sin and who protect this entire dharma of mine, I offer my respectful reverence.

Sircar's notes

3 Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 312, text lines 17-18. A modified form of the last three feet of the stanza reads : ye bhūmipāḥ satatam=ujjvaladharma-cittāḥ| mad-dharmam=eva paripālanam=ācaranti tat-pādukā-dvayam=ahaṁ śirasā vahāmi(ibid., vol. XVI, p. 96, text lines 41-44). The second half is sometimes also given as : mad-dharmam=eva satataṁ paripālayanti tat-pāda-padma-yugalaṁ śirasā namāmi (or vahāmi). Cf. Ep. Carn., Vol. III, Mysore Nos. 1–3, 34, etc. The stanza is also found as : Mad-vaṁśajā v=ānya-kul-odbhavā vā rakṣanti ye dharmam—imaṁ nṛipālāḥ | teṣāṁ tu nityaṁ sa Harir=dadātu santāna-vṛddhiṁ bhuvan-ādhipatyam || (ibid., Vol. III, Sr. Nos. 64, 100; TN. No. 63). For similar variations, see Ind. Ant., Vol. XII. p. 121; Vol. XVI, p. 256; Ep. Ind., Vol. XVIII. p. 299, text lines 40-42; Vol. XX, p. 134, text line 19-; Vol. XXI, p. 25, text lines 39-40. See Nos. 87 and 90.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

mama vaṁśe, etc. Sec No. 90, note. mayi rājñi vyatikrānte, etc. See No. 90, note. para-dattāṁ sva-dattāṁ‚ etc. See No. 90, note. Asmin=vaṁśe, etc. See No. 90, note.

Sircar's notes

4 Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII. text line 18. Cf. mama dharmaṁ na lumpati or na lopyaṁ mama śāsanaṁ (ibid., Vol. XXII, p. 194, text line 23) and Asmin=vaṁśe kṣaya-ksīṇe yo='nyo rājā bhaviṣyati | tasy=āhaṁ pāda-lagno='smi mayā dattaṁ na lopayet || (ibid., Vol. XXVIII. p. 283, text lines 36-37; for Mama for Asmin and kara for pāda, cf. ibid., Vol. XXII, p. 194), For Mayi rājñi vyatikrānte in the first foot and śāsanaṁ na vyatikramet in the last, see Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 155. The Skanda Purāṇa, op. cit., verse 41, has it as : Asmin=vaṁśe kṣitau ko='pi rājā yadi bhaviṣyati | tasy=āhaṁ karalagno='smi mad-dattaṁ yad ipālyate || See Nos. 87 and 89.

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5 Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 320, text line 13.

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6 Ep. Ind., vol. XI, p. 101, text line 32; Vol. XII, p. 328, text lines 48-50; Vol. XX, p. 104, text lines 48-49.

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1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 218, verse 42. Cf. Mahābhārata, XIII, 62, 27 : mṛtyor vai kiṅkaro daṇdas=tamo vahniḥ sudāruṇaḥ, etc.Ballāla (Dānasāgara, op. cit.. p. 320) attributes the stanza to the Mahābhārata.

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2. Ind. Ant., Vol. XIV, p. 319, text lines 113-14.

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3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XVII, p. 303, verse 20.

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4. Ind. Ant., Vol. XIV, p. 319, text lines 107-08. Ballāla (Dānasāgara, op. cit., p. 320) quotes the stanza with bhūmi° for rājñaḥ and vidhiḥ for nidhiḥ and attributes it to the Mahābhārata.

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5. Ep. Ind., Vol. II, p. 219. The stanza is sometimes found as : KṛtaTretā-Dvāpareṣu tapo='tyarthaṁ praśasyate | munayo='tra praśaṁsanti dānam=ekaṁ Kalau yuge|| (ibid., Vol.XXXII, p. 75, text lines 21-22).

Translation

They said that the poison is not poison, the property of a brahmin is also said to be a poison: the poison kills only one man while the (steal of) a brahmin property kills sons and grandsons !

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Aviṣaṁ viṣam=ity=āhu, etc. See No. 98, note. Brahma-svaṁ putra-pautraghnaṁ, etc. See No. 98, note. Brahma-svaṁ tu viṣam, etc. See No. 98, note. Deva-svaṁ tu viṣaṁ ghoram, etc. See No. 98, note.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 167, text lines 35-36. In some cases, the first half reads : Deva-svaṁ hi viṣaṁ ghoraṁ kālakūṭa-sama-prabham (ibid., vol. IV, p. 345). Sometimes we have Brahma-svaṁ tu viṣaṁ ghoraṁ na viṣaṁ viṣam=ucyate | viṣaṁ tv=ekā°(ibid., Vol. XV, p. 252) and deva-svaṁ for brahma-svaṁ or for Na viṣaṁ (ibid., Vol. VI, p. 105) and Aviṣaṁ for Na viṣaṁ (ibid., Vol. VII, p. 324). The stanza occurs in the Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verses 46-47 (with pautrakam for pautrikam); Vasiṣṭhasmṛti, 17, 86; Padma Purāṇa,VI, 33,45. The Baudhāyana Dharmasūtra (I, 11, 16) has the stanza as: Brahma-svaṁ putra-pautra-ghnaṁ viṣam=ekākinaṁ haret | na viṣaṁ, etc,

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7. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 191, text lines 37-39,

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Anudakeṣv=araṇyeṣu, etc. See No. 150, note.

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, p. 312, text lines 50-51.Cf. Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, 35; Padma Purāṇa, VI, 33, 34. See above. No. 13.

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2. Ind. Ant., Vol. XVII, p. 12, text line 25; Chhabra, Antiquities of Chamba State, II, p. 177. Sometimes we have tapaḥ for yaśaḥ and palayet for pālanam.

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3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 234, lines 33-34.

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Pūrva-dattāṁ tu, etc. See No. 103, note.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 97. Sometimes we have Pūrva-dattāṁ at the beginning (Ind. Ant., Vol. II, p. 301). The stanza is found in the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, IV, 164, 33, and, with slight variations, in Govindānanda's Dānakriyākaumudī (Bibliotheca Indica ed., p. 41 ).

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5. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 121, text lines 42-43.

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6. Ind. Ant., Vol. XIV, p. 319, text lines 115-16. For slight variations, see Ep.Ind., Vol. VII, p. 97, text lines 33-34.

Translation

He who gives land furrowed by the plough together with seed and abounding with crop, abides in heaven so long as the sun continues to give light to the world. (EI24, p.217)

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7. Cf. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 328. Mahābhārata, XIII. 62, 31 has it with mahīṁ dattvā sa-bījāṁ sa-phalām=api | udīrṇaṁ v=āpi śaraṇaṁ yathā bhavati kāmadaḥ|| while Hemādri (op. cit., p. 480) reads udyānaṁ śaraṇaṁ v=āpi tathā. The stanza also occurs in the PadmaPurāṇa, VI, 33, 6; Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, Uttara-parvan, Ch. 164, 16; Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 6 (with Phālākṛṣṭāṁ mahīṁ dattvā sa-bījāṁ śasya-śālinīm | yāvat=sūrya-karā lokā°). Ballāla (Dānasāgara, op. cit., p. 323) quotes the stanza with slight variations and attributes it to Bṛhaspati.

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8. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 324, lines 34-35.

Translation

For the good of the people the laws have been established. The wise one should keep them in justice. The reprobate who from avarice or delusion shall usurp, will promptly incur a painful hell down below. (translation EI24, p.217)

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., Vol.XII, p. 214, verse 35.

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2. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXIII, p. 213, verse 8.

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3. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 252.

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4. CII, Vol. III, p. 119, text lines 16-17; p. 122, text lines 17-18; p. 128, text lines 24-25. Sometimes we have n='āśubhā (ibid., p. 117).

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5. Ep. Carn., Vol. XV, Arkalgud No. 106.

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6. Ep. Ind., Vol. VIII, p. 235, text lines 29-30.

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7. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 121.

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8. Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 201, lines 25-27. Ballāla's Dānasāgara (op. cit, p. 317) reads yojanāni in the first half and dattā svalp=āpi rājendra sarvakāma-pradāyinī in the second and attributes the stanza to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati.

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9. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII, p. 67, text lines 22-23. Sometimes we have tasya for dīrgha in the first half and the second half as: evaṁ tu munayaḥprāhur=dānāt=tat=pālanaṁ varam (Ind. .Ant., Vol. XVII. p. 122, text lines 51-52).

Translation

Rāmacandra begs repeatedly to all these future kings: "this bridge of Dharma which is common to all the kings, you always must protect it!".

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

sāmānyo 'yaṁ dāna-dharmaḥ, etc. See No. 117, note. sarvān=etān, etc. See No. 117, note. sarvān=eva-=āgāminaḥ, etc. See No. 117, note. sarvān=eva prārthayaty=eṣa, etc. See No. 117, note. Bho rājānaḥ, etc. See No. 117, note. Dattvā bhūmiṁ, etc. See No. 117, note.

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 343, text lines 55-57; etc. Sometimes the first half becomes the second and we have Rāmabhadraḥ (or the name of the donor—ibid., Vol. XXVIII,p. 283, text line 35) for Rāmacandraḥ, krameṇa (ibid., Vol. XXIX, p. 9, text line 55) for bhavadbhiḥ, and dattvā bhūmiṁ (ibid., Vol. XXXII, p. 76, text line 36) for sarvān—etan. we have also prārthayaty eṣa Rāma(i in the last quarter (ibid., Vol. VI, p. 62, verse 34). In some cases, we have the first half as : Bho rājānaḥ prārthayaty=eṣa Rāmo bhūyo bhūyo prarthanīyā narendrāḥ followed by sāmānyo='yaṁ, etc. (ibid., Vol. XXXI, p. 288, text line 27) or as: Sarvān=eva prārthayaty=eṣa Rāmo bhūyo bhūyo bhāvinaḥ pārthivendrān, and rakṣaṇīyaḥ for pālanīyaḥ in the second half (Ep. Carn., Vol. III, Md. No. 113). For setur=narāṇām, sve sve kāle for kāle kāle, and bhūmi-pālān for pārthivendrān, see Chhabra, Antiquities of Chamba State, II, p. 178. For Sāmānyo='yaṁ dāna-dharmaḥ, sve sve kāle, see Ind. Ant., Vol. VI, pp. 195, 202. Ep. Carn., Vol. V, Arsikere No. 90, gives etān=adyo for sarvān=tān. In the Kalasan (Java) inscription of Śaka 700, the stanza reads Sarvān=ev=āgāminaḥ pārthivendrān=bhūyo bhūyo yācate rājasiṁhaḥ| sāmānyo='yam dharma-setur=narāṇāṁ, etc. (Chatterjee and Chakravarti, India and Java, p. 46). The Skanda Purāṇa, op cit., verse 40, has it as : Dattvā bhūmiṁ bhāvinaḥ pārthiveśān=bhūyo bhūyo yācate Rāmacandraḥ | sāmānyo='yam dharma-setur=nṛpāṇāṁ sve sve kāle pālanīyo bhavadbhih || See No. 118.

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2. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 186. See No. 117.

Translation

A conch, a throne, an umbrella, the best horses and elephants are the flowers of land-donation, its fruit is the sky, o destroyer of strongholds!

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Siṁhāsanaṁ tathā chatraṁ, etc. See No 119, note. Dhavalāny=ātapatrāṇi, etc. See No. 119, note.

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII, p. 123, text lines 34-35. Sometimes we have Siṁhāsanaṁ tathā chatraṁ in the first quarter (ibid., Vol. XXV, p. 218, verse 37), gaj-āśva-varavāhanam in the second foot, cinhāni or puṣyāni (cf. ibid., p. 128, text line 17; Vol. XXII, p. 166, text line 29) in the third foot, and phalaṁ svargas=that=aiva ca in the fourth (ibid., Vol. XXV, p. 218, line -21), we have also śaṅkho and phalam=etat (ibid., Vol. X, p. 89). For the first half, sometimes we have : Dhavalāny=ātapatrāṇi dantinaś=ca mad-oddhatāh(or mad-otkaṭāḥ), to which is also added : sudhā-dhautāni harmyāṇi yuvatyo ratna-bhūṣanāḥ, and in the second half dharma-dāyasya and phalam=anyad=bhaviṣyati (ibid., Vol. XXV, p. 60, text line 54; Vol. XXXII. p. 70, lines 22-24). For dṛśyante tāni Bhārata or phalaṁ svargam=anuttamam in the last foot, see Ep. Ind., vol. XIX, p. 73, text lines 35-36; p. 213, text line 30. The stanza occurs in the Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 15 (with cara-sthāvara-vāruṇāḥ in the second foot and punyāṇi for puṣpāṇi) and the PadmaPurāṇa, VI, 33, 15. The Mahābhārata has the first half in XIII, 62, 89 (with vara-vāhanam) and the second half in XIII. 62, 91 (with puṇyāni; Hemādri has dhar-āśvā vara-vāraṇāḥ and puṣpāni—op. cit., pp. 483-84). Ballāla's Dānasāgara (op. cit., p. 316) attributes the stanza to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati.

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1. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII. p. 121.

Sircar's notes

2. Ep. Ind., Vol. XI. pp. 312-13, text lines 47-48. For naika-janmātmakaṁ phalam in the last foot, see ibid., Vol. XXI, p. 145, text line 55. The stanza is found in the Saṁvartasmṛti, verse 78, and the Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 33. Ballāla's Dānasāgara (op. cit„ p. 317) attributes it to Saṁvarta.

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3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 324, text lines 32.

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

A-saṅkheyāni varṣāṇi, etc. See No. 123, note.

Sircar's notes

4. CII, Vol. III, pp. 96,104, 238, 247, etc. often we have Ṣaṣṭir=varṣa° or Ṣaṣṭir=varṣa°. Sometimes modati is found replaced by nandati (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 16, text line 12) or tiṣṭhati(CII, Vol. III. pp. 167, 180) or vasati (ibid., p. 194.), and ācchettā by ākṣeptā (ibid., pp. 108, 137, 296). The first quarter is sometimes found as Kalpa-koṭi-sahasrāṇi(Ind. Ant., Vol. XX, p. 417, text line 48), the second quarter as modate divi bhūmidaḥ (Ep. Ind., Vol. XVII, p. 333, verse 3), and the first half as : A-saṅkhyeyāni varṣāni svarge modanti bhūṁidāh(Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIV, p. 303, text line 29). We also have saṣṭiṁ varṣa-śatāni ca for the second quarter and gavāṁ koṭi-pradānena bhūmi-hartā na śudhyati in the second half (ibid., Vol. IX, p. 6‚ text lines 26-27). The second half is sometimes given as kṣiti-pātrānna-hartā tad=dvitayaṁ narakaṁ vrajet (Ind. Ant., Vol. V, p. 56). For yāvad=ā-bhūta-samplavam in the fourth foot, see Ep. Ind., Vol. XVIII. p. 299, text lines 34-35. The stanza occurs in the PadmaPurāṇa, VI, 33, 29-30 (with ṣaṣṭi°, tiṣṭhati and āhartā); SkandaPurāṇa, op. cit., verse 26 (with vasati and narakaṁ vrajet) ; Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 29 (with v=ānumantā ca tam=eva and the omission of the first half) ; Viṣnudharmottara quoted by Hemādri, op. cit., p. 486, and by Aparārka, op. cit., p. 369. It is attributed to the KūrmaPurāṇa in Divākara’s Dānacandrikā and to Bṛhaspati in Nīlakaṇṭha's Dānamayūkha(IHQ, Vol. VI, p. 776).

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5. Ep.Ind„ Vol. XXXII, p. 70, text lines 12-13. This is Laghu-Śātātapasmṛti, verse 150. Hemādri assigns it to Yājñavalkya (op. cit., p. 75).

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1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII. p. 312, text line 16; p. 258 (manīṣibhiḥ for mahīp ate).

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Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

satyaṁ c=aiva, etc. See No. 126, note. sapta-janm-āntareṇ=aiva, etc. See No. 126, note. Iṣṭaṁ dattaṁ, etc. See No. 126, note.

Sircar's notes

2. See, e. g., Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIX, p. 193, text lines 32-33; Vol. XXVIII, p. 283, lines 29-30. The first half is sometimes found as : Sapta-janm-āntareṇ=aiva yat=puṇyaṁ pūrva-sañcitam (ibid., Vol. XIX, p. 73, text lines 36-37), or Iṣṭaṁ dattaṁ hutaṁ c=aiva yat=kiñcid dharma=sañcitam (ibid., Vol. XXII. pp. 166-67, text lines 34-35), or Satyaṁ c=aiva hutaṁ c=aiva (ibid., Vol. XIII, pp. 312-13). For yaḥ kaścid=dharma-sañcayaḥ in the second foot, see Ind. Ant., Vol. XVII, p. 122, text lines 57-58. The second half of the stanza is found in the Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā (verse 41) with ardh-āṅgulasya.

Translation

The land-givers go where there are golden palaces and wish-fulfilling streams of whealth, in the abode of Apsaras and Gandharvas.

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII. p. 123, text line 35. We have also Prāsādā yatra sauvarṇā° and tiṣṭhati dānadaḥ (ibid., p. 70, text lines 20-21). Ep. Carn., Vol. XII, Sl. No. 95 ascribes the authorship of the stanza to Bṛhaspati, while Hemādri (op. cit., p. 481) and Ballāla (op. cit., p. 316) assign it to the Mahābhārata (cf. XIII, 62) and the Dāna-Bṛhaspati respectively.

Translation

Protecting the gift made by others is twice as meritorious as making a gift; One's own gift becomes fruitless by harming the gift made by others.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Kharo dvādaśa, etc. See No 128, note.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., vol. XVI. text lines 75-77; p. 318. Sometimes we have adhikaṁ for dvi-gunaṁ (ibid., Vol. XXXI. p. 261, text lines 147). This is followed by the stanza : Kharo dvādaśa janmāni aṣṭa janmāni śūkaraḥ|śvā tu saptati-janmāni ity=evaṁ Manur=avravīt || in Ep. Carn, Vol. XII, Gb. No. 34.

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5. Ep. Ind., Vol.XXV, p. 219, verse 49.

Translation

The men who protect a land given by himself or by another, will stay happy in the world of Rudra during thousand millions of years.

Sircar's notes

6. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII. pp. 257-58.

Translation

O Yudhiṣṭhira, you must carefully protect land that has been given by yourself or by others to the brahmins, preservation is even better than giving a land.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

pūrva–dattāṁ dvijātibhyo, etc. See No. 131, note. pūrva–dattāṁ narendraiś=ca, etc. See No. 131, note. Prāg-dattāṁ bhūmiṁ viprebhyo, etc. See 131, note.

Sircar's notes

1. CII, pp. 119, 122, 127, 133, 194, 198, 296. The word mahīmatāṁ is altered in most eases to mahimatām (CII, Vol. III, pp. 96, 104, 108, 115, 137, 167) and sometimes to mahibhṛtāṁ (Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, p. 313 ), while the first and third feet are sometimes quoted respectively as Pūrva-dattāṁ dvijātibhyo(CII, p. 108) and bhūmiṁ deva-dvijātinam (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI. p. 261, text line 148). Yudhiṣṭhira is sometimes replaced by narādhipa (ibid., Vol. XXII. p. 85, text lines 74-75). Sometimes the first foot reads Prāg-dattāṁ bhūmiṁ viprebhyo and the third reads mahyāṁ mahibhṛtām śreṣtha(Ep. Ind., Vol. VII. p. 97, text lines 26-27). The first half in some cases reads Pūrva-dattāṁ narendraiś=ca yatnād=rakṣa Śatakrato (ibid., Vol. XI, p. 313). The stanza occurs in the BhaviṣyaPurāṇa, IV, 164, 38 (with rakṣe and mahibhṛtām).

Translation

The one who would steal land given by himself or another becomes a worm in excrement and is cooked with his ancestors.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

sarva-sasya–samṛddhāṁ, etc. See No. 132, note. Aṅgam=ekam, etc. See No. 132, note.

Sircar's notes

2. CII, Vol. III, pp. 104, 108,137. In some cases, the first foot is found as: Sarva-śasya-samṛddhāṁ tu (ibid., pp. 11, 122, 127, 133) and the second foot as : yo hared=vasudhām=iha(Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 114, text line 27). In the second half, sometimes we find śva-viṣṭhāyām (CII, Vol. III, pp. 119, 137) and sva-viṣṭhāyāṁ(JASB, Vol. VI, 1910, p. 436) instead of sa viṣṭhāyāṁ, and majjati or majjate (CII, Vol. III, pp. 108, 119, 137) instead of pacyate, and the last three words also as : pacyate pitṛbhiḥ saha (Ind. Ant., Vol. XXXIX, 1910, p. 196). Sometimes the first half is given as : Para-dattāṁ sva-dattāṁ vā yo harati nar-ādhemaḥ(Ep. Carn., Vol. VII, Tm. No. 51) and the second half is modified as : ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi viṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate kṛmiḥ (CII, Vol. III, p. 289) or as gavāṁ śata-sahasrasya hantur= harati (or pibati) duṣkṛtam (ibid., pp. 238, 247; sometimes hantuḥ pibati kilbiṣam in the last quarter,—Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI. p. 80, text lines 43-3), or ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrāṇi narake pacyate tu saḥ (ibid., Vol. XVI, p. 267; cf. bhṛśam for tu saḥ in Ind. Ant., Vol. VI. p. 26, line 26), or ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi Kumbhīpāke sa pacyate (Ind, Ant., Vol. VI, p. 25, text line 16; or nisaye sa vipacyate—–ibid., p. 30, line 16; or ghore tamasi vartate—Ep. Ind., Vol. XIV, p. 335, verse 90), or tena jātā janayitā narake pātitā dhruvam (Ep.Ind., Vol. XII, p. 203), or śvāna-yoni-śataṁ gatvā Cāṇḍāleṣu=abhijāyate (ibid., Vol. XX, p. 128, text line 21 ), or narakān=na nivartante yāvac=candra-divākarau(Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII, Sb. No. 477),or sa rūpī kula-saṁyuktaḥ kalpāntaṁ narakaṁ vrajet (ibid., Vol. X, Malur No. 57 ), or na tasya narakād=ghorād=vidyate niṣkṛtiḥ kvacit (Ep. Ind., Vol. XVII, p. 304, verse 10), or kapilā-śata-ghātīnām | enasā pratipadyate (ibid., Vol. XXXIII. p. 213, v.5 ). Fcr brahma-vṛttiṁ haret=tu yaḥ(hareta yaḥ—Ind. Ant., Vol. II. p. 159) in the second foot, see Chhabra, Antiquities of Chamba State, II, p. 178. we have also Aṅgam=ekaṁ padam=ekaṁ in the first foot and divyaṁ varṣa-sahasrāṇi jāyate Brahmarākṣaṣaḥ in the second half (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIII, p. 143, text lines 12-13). For divyaṁ varṣa-sahasraṇi in the third foot, see also Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 121. The second half is sometimes given as : ākṣeptā c=ānumantā ca sarvathā narakaṁ vrajet(Ep. Ind., Vol.XVII, p. 337, text line 13). In the Tan Kran (Cambodia) inscription of about the 7th centuryA.D., we have the second half as : Avīci-narake yāti pitṛbhiḥ saha bandhubhiḥ (R. C. Majumdar, Inscriptions of Kambuja, p. 50). The stanza occurs in the PadmaPurāṇa, op. cit., verses 28-29 (with haret=tu and viṣṭhā-kṛmi°), BhavisyaPurāṇa, op. cit., verse 34 (with the second half as sa naro narake ghore kliśyaty=ā pralay-āntikam), BrahmaPurāṇa, 115,67 (with ṣaṣṭir=varṣa° and viṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate kṛmiḥ); Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 28 (with harec=cq aqḍ sva-viṣṭhayāṁ). In the Viṣṇudharmotiara (Hemādri, loc. cit.), the first and second halves occur as the first and second halves of two consecutive stanzas with harec=ca and viṣṭhāyāṁ kṛmitāṁ=eti pitṛbhiḥ sahitas=tathā). Cf. PadmaPurāṇa, III. 24, 10. Aparārka assigns it to the ĀdityaPurāṇa (op. cit., p.370). The stanza is also ascribed to Viśvāmitra in the Dānacandrikā and Dānamayūkha,to Bṛhaspati in Govindārianda’s Dānakriyākaumudi and to the Mahābhārata in the Dānakhaṇḍa (IHQ., Vol. VI. p. 777). Gf. Coedés, Inscriptions du Cambodge, Vol. v, p. 76.

Translation

He who would seize land, whether given by himself or by another, imbibes the sin of the slayer of a hundred thousand cows.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

sva-dattā duhitā, etc. See No 133, note. sva-dattā medinī, etc. See No. 133, note. Mad-dattā putrikā jneyā, etc. See No. 133, note.

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Carn., Vol. I, revised ed., p. 36; Vol. V, Hassan No. 36 (svayaṁmātā dattāṁ). Sometimes we have Sva-dattā duhitā c=aiva para-dattā saho-darī | vipra-dattā svayaṁ mātā na bhojyā ca vasundharā || (ibid., Vol. IV, Yedetore 19). The first three feet are sometimes read as : Mad-dattā putrikā jñeyā pitṛ-dattāsahodarā | anya-dattā tu jananī (Ind. Ant.,Vol., IV,p. 334). The first half is also given as : Sva-dattā medinī putri vipra-dattā sahodarī(Ep. Carn., Vol. V, Hassan No. 40) and the second half as para-dattā para-strī syān=na hartavyā vasundharā (ibid., Vol.X, Govibinur No. 3).

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2. Ep. Carn., Vol. XII, Si. No. 95 assigning the stanza to Āditya.

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3. See, e.g., Ep. Ind , Vol. vI. p. 19, text lines 22-23; Ind. Ant., Vol. VI, p. 87, text lines 34-35 (anyasya for anyārtha°). we have also kleśam for duḥkham (Ep. Ind., Vol. XVI. p. 85, verse 92).

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4. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 4, verse 50.

Translation

Neither thousands of tank consecrations, neither hundreds of Vājapeya sacrifices, nor millions of cow-gifts could purify a land-stealer.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Saṣṭiṁ varṣa°, etc. See No. 137, note. Taṭākānām, etc. See No. 137, note. Vāpī-kūpa°, etc. See No. 137, note. Ārāmāṇāṁ sahasreṇa, etc. See No. 137, note. Aśvamedha-sahasreṇa, etc See No. 137, note.

Sircar's notes

5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 166, text lines 33-34. For Taṭākānāṁ, cf. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 50, text line 23. we have also sahasrāṇi and śatāṇi and sometimes gosahasra (ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 50, text line 23) or aśvamedha (ibid., Vol. XI, pp. 382-83) for vājapeya. The first half is also found as : Ārāmānāṁ sahasreṇa tadāgānāṁ śatena ca (ibid., Vol. XXXII, p. 68, text lines 28), or Ṣaṣtim varṣa-sahasrāṇi ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-śatāni ca (ibid., Vol. IX, p. 6, text line 26-27). For Aśvamedha-sahasreṇa in the first foot, see Ind. Ant„ Vol. XVII, p. 122, text lines 58-59. Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII, Sb. No. 391 has kanyā-koṭi-pradādena in the third foot. The verse occurs in the SkandaPurāṇa, op.cit., verse 35 (with aśvamedha for vājapeya and °pradānena bhūmi-hartā viśudhyati); PadmaPurāṇa,VI, 33, 37 (with Vāpi-kūpa-sahasreṇa); Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 39 (with Vāpi-kūpa-sahasreṇa aśvamedha°); Parāśarasaṁhitā, XII, 51 (with Vāpī-kūpa-taṭāk-ādyair=vājapeya-śatair=api).

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1. Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 250, lines 59-60.

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2. Ind. Ant., Vol.XX, p. 310, text lines 28-29. for grāsa-hartā for bhūmi-hartā, see Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII. p. 76, text line 46.

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3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 166, verse 21.

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4. Ep.Ind., Vol. XII, p. 325, lines 38-40.

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5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, pp. 312-13, text lines 46-47. The first half is found in the Vasiṣṭhasmṛti, 29, 19, and Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 18; cf. PadmaPurāṇa, VI, 33, 18.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Vāk–dattaṁ ca, etc. See No. 143, note.

Sircar's notes

6. Chhabra, Antiquities of Chamba State, II, p. 178. Sometimes we have Vāk-dattaṁ ca mano-dattaṁ mati-dattaṁ na diyate | ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi viṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate kṛmiḥ||(Ep. Carn., Vol. IV, Hg. No. 98, text lines 31-33). For dhārā-dattaṁ instead of mati-dattaṁ and other variations in the second half, see ibid., Vol. VII. Sh. No. 45.

Translation

Sircar's notes

7. Ep. Ind., Vol. I, p. 56, text lines 57-58.

Translation

The one who gives water obtains satisfaction, the one who gives food an eternal bliss, the one who offers sesame seeds is fulfilled with the wished descendance, like the one who gives a lamp, o best of the Kurus, the one who gives land obtains all including a long life.

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 219, verse 46.

Translation

This sovereignty of the earth totters like the wind and the cloude; the enjoyment of realm is sweet but for an instant; the breath of man is like a drop of water on the tip of a blade of grass. Only religious merit is the friend on the journey to the other world. (translation EI24_12 p.217)

Sircar's notes

2. Ind. Ant., Vol. VI. p. 56; Ep. Ind., Vol.XXVI, p. 56, text lines 13-14. Sometimes we have °madhurā viṣay-opabhogāḥ (ibid., Vol. XXIV, p. 295, text line 34).

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3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 328. Sometimes we have mā hara for mohena (ibid., Vol. XII, p. 325).

Translation

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIX, p. 43, text lines 49-51. Sometimes we have °modaniyā for °moditavyā.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Toya-hīneṣv=araṇyeṣu, etc. See No. 149, note. Nighnatāṁ, etc. See No. 149, note.

Sircar's notes

5. Ind. Ant., Vol. XVI, p. 134, text lines 17-18. Sometimes we have Nighnatāṁ for Vighnatāṁ.

Translation

Those who steal ancient gifts are reborn as black serpents dwelling in hollow tress in the dried up forests of the Vindhya mountains.

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Vāri-hīneṣv=araṇyeṣu, etc. See No. 150, note. A-pānīyeṣv=araṇyeṣu, etc. See No. 150, note. Bhūṣv=aṭavīṣv=atoyāsu, etc. See No. 150, note. Nirjale prāntare, etc See No. 150, note. Nirjane prāntare, etc. See No. 150, note.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 76, text line 63; p. 85. Sometimes we have °śāyinaḥ for°vāsinaḥ (ibid., Vol. XXV, p. 219, verse 50), hi jāyante for °bhijāyante (ibid., p. 137) and maru-sarpā hi or kṛṣṇasarpā° or mah-āhayo or kṛṣṇasarpāḥ prajāyante or kṛṣṇasarpāś=ca jāyante or kṛṣṇāhayo°(Ep. Ind., Vol. XX, p. 128, text line 22; Vol. XXIV, p. 295, text line 31; Vol. XXV, p. 219, verse 50; Vol. XXVIII. p. 311, text line 14; Vol. XXXII, p. 76, text line 43), For the first foot, sometimes we have A-pāniyeṣv=araṇyeṣu(CII, Vol. III, p. 108), Vāri-hineṣv=araṇyeṣu, Anudakeṣv-araṇyeṣu, Nirjane (or Nirjale) prāntare deśe (ibid., Vol. XXIV, p. 295, line 31; Vol. XXVIII, p. 257, text line 152; pp. 311-12, text lines 14-15), Bhūṣv=aṭavīśv=a-toyāsu(CII, Vol. III, p. 180), etc., and, for the fourth foot, deva-brahma-sva-hāriṇaḥ, brahma-bhūmyapahārakāḥ, bhūmi-dāna-harā narāḥ, bhūmi-dānaṁ haranti ye, ye haranti vasundharām (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIV, p. 295, line 31; Vol. XXV, p. 219, verse 50; Vol. XXVIII, p. 312, text line 15). The stanza occurs in the Mahābhārata as quoted by Hemādri, op. cit., p. 483 (with °sarpās=tu jāyante ye haranti vasundharām); Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, IV, 164, 39 (with Toya-hīneṣu=araṇyeṣu in the first and narā brahma-sva-hāriṇaḥ in the last quarter); Skanda Purāṇa, op. cit., verse 3 (with kṛṣṇasarpāḥ prajāyante datta-dāy-āpahārakāḥ).

Translation

The man who, even in mind, approves a deed endowed with Dharma, he increases according to which has been given (yaṭheṣṭena) as the moon during the bright fortnight.

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI, pp. 92-93.

Translation

Sircar's notes

2. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI. p. 343, verse 44.

Translation

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3. Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 367, lines 20-21.

Translation

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4. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 325, line 38.

Translation

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5. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 278, lines 47-48. The stanza occurs in the Mahābhārata, XIII. 62, 33.

Translation

Variation

This stanza appears with the following modifications here:

Yathā sva-putraṁ, etc. See No. 156.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 218, verse 40. Cf. Mahābhārata, XIII, 62, 26 : Yathā sva-putraṁ jananī kṣīreṇa bharate sadā| anugṛhṇāti dātāraṁ tathā sarvarasair=mahī || Ballāla (op. cit., p. 320) quotes the same verse with slight variations and attributes it to the Mahābhārata.

Translation

Sircar's notes

7. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIV, p. 303, text lines 26-27. The stanza is found in the Mahābhārata, XIII. 62, 47 (with śasyāni rohanti prakirṇāni and tathā kāmāḥ prarohanti).

Translation

Sircar's notes

1. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII. p. 327, text lines 37–38. The verse is found in the Mahābhārata, XIII, 62, 84 (with tathā for evaṁ and vivardhate for prarohati); Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 12 (with sadyas° for Śakra and prasarpati for visarpati). Cf. Mahābhārata, XIII, 33. Ballāla’s Dānasāgara (op. cit., p. 316) attributes the stanza to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati at one place and to Vṛddha– Vasiṣṭha elsewhere (p. 322; with janma-prabhṛti mānavaḥ).

Translation

A miserly man, whatever the sins he has committed, is purified by a gift of land, even measuring the size of a gocarman (literally a cow’s skin, here it is a unit of measurement).

Sircar's notes

2. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIII, p. 161, verse 7. Sometimes we have janma-prabhṛti mānavaḥ in the second foot and etad° at the beginning of the second half (Vogel, Antiquities of Chamba State, I. p. 163). The Mahābhārata (XIII, 62, 19) has it with puruṣaḥ pāpaṁ kurute vṛtti-karśitaḥ. Ballāla's Dānasāgara (op. cit., p. 316) attributes it to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati.

Translation

[The donor] will sejourn in the world of Rudra during thousands of yugas, as long as the given land remains undivided and very propitious.

Sircar's notes

3. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 50, note 7. For slight variations, see Ep. Carn., Vol. XI, Cd. No. 82.

Sircar's notes

4. Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, p. 312. The stanza is found in the Saṁvartasmṛti, verse 73.

Translation

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5. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 121.

Sircar's notes

6. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 156, text lines 40-41.

Translation

Sircar's notes

7. Ep. Ind., Vol. II, p. 360. The verse is found in the Manusmṛti, IV, 235.

Translation

Manu said: "He will be born twelve times as an ass, eight times as a hog, seventy times as a dog".

Sircar's notes

This stanza is quoted by Sircar in the note of the stanza 128 but it seems to be a variation of Sircar1965_st0009. What is interesting here is that the authorship of the sentence is included in the stanza. Source : Epigraphia Carnatica, XII, Gubbi Taluq, n°34, pp.42-44 : At Yiḍagūtru (Chiṭṭanahaḷḷi hobli) on a stone in the varadah of the Īśvara temple