Indian Antiquary Vol 01

SR No.: 032493
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
sun, ocean, earth, rivers, and mountains endure. Therefore, no one shall obstruct the reverend mendicant priests in the act of ploughing the land, causing it to be ploughed or assigning it over [to some person], in virtue of this its condition as an assignment to gods. All future kings, whether of our race or others, bearing in mind that power is transitory and humanity frail, and knowing the good fruits ordinarily arising from grants
Valabli.
PLATE II.
Transcript of the second half of another grant to a Buddhist Monastery, found in the ruins of
[FEB. 2, 1872.
of land, should recognize this our grant and continue it. It is said, &c. (the rest as in the translation of the plate at page 16.) The prince Dhruvasena is executive officer here.
margrämeremitenteerumnar reamint: Nikat ... युक्त कवि नियुक्त क... महात्तरा... दीनन्या
...समाज्ञापयत्यस्तुवरसंविदितं यथा मया मातापितृ (पुण्या) प्ययनाय sitaftenciamé gitaikys
Shri Shilá... the great Maheshvara, whose other name, procured for him by the enjoyment... was Dharmâdity a, commands persons in office or holding commissions. . . . . great [and small] and others..... "Be it known to you, that for the increase of the religious merit of my mother and father, I [have assigned] a field named..... on the northern side of the river, in the village of Baksha ra-putra [?] in Palatirolahma [?]; and also a field.... in the village of Udrapadraka, to the assembly of the reverend mendicant priests coming from the four quarters, and residing in the
Engraved by Divirapati Skandabhata, the son of Divira pati Vatra (?) bhatti, minister for peace and war. S. 326, the fifth day of the dark half of Magha.
My own hand.
GESTIÓ Sæma unat vergisstenkaigekat Aercars afzania स्काराय पालतोरोलझे [?] रक्षरपुत्र [?] ग्रामे नद्युत्तरत क्षेत्रं तथोद्रपद्रक प्रामे ...
क्षेत्रं सोदृङ्ग
t&c. [The rest as usual, a word or two only differing]. दूतक [:] पुत्रभहादिन्ययशाः लिखितं संधिविग्र ..........सं २८६ वैशाख व ६ ॥ सहस्तो मम.
THIS hill stands in the midst of a large plain, near Baus it which was lately the head quarters of a sub-division of the district of Bhagalpur in Bihar. It is of granite and almost devoid of vegetation except near the summit and on one side where it is generally overgrown with low jungle. The ascent has been rendered easy by
भुमिच्छिद्रन्याय – This expression Bhámichchhidra nyaya, which occurs in a great many copperplates, and which no one has yet attempted to explan, may have some reference to the circumstance that holes in the earth are not permanent but are filled up in the course of time. That this fact was often the subject of thought and remark is shown by the story (in the Taitt. Sam. II. 5, and in the Bhagavata VI. 9 and other works) that Indra transferred the sin he incurred by killing Vishvarûpa, the son of Tvashtri-among other objects and persons-to the earth, and in
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monastery constructed by.... for [providing] clothing, food, and [the means of] sleeping and sitting.... and for the purpose of [providing] fragrant bintment, incense, flowers, oil for lamps for the glorious Buddhas, and for the repairing of the monastery [lit. putting aright the broken parts]. These fields are granted by pouring water, along with their appurtenances, &c. &c." [the rest as usual].
The son Bhattâdi tya-yashâh is executive officer here. Written. . . . . 286 on the 6th day of Vaishakha vadya. My own hand.
steps cut in the rock, which run up about twothirds of the way; but as the hill is upwards of 700 feet high, and is extremely steep and rugged near the top, very few persons can reach the summit without halting in the middle of the journey.
This hill occupies a large place in the ancient consideration of her having taken it, gave her a boon, that all holes made in her would be filled up in time. The sense of the sentence then is-that 'a grant is to last as long as the sun, the moon, &c. shall endure on the principle of holes in the earth (nyaya means a principle ef. the T akra Kaundinya and other n'y â ya s) that is, as holes in the earth are filled up in time and the earth is whole again and so unchanged, so a grant should survive all revolutions &c. and last unchanged for ever.
† It is on the east side of the river Chandan, 24 miles N. of Bausi and 29 S. Bhagalpur in Lat. 24° 50' N., Long. 870 E.-Ed.