Epigraphia Indica Vol 23

SR No.: 032577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1935
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

Page 80

No. 8.]
NANDAPUR COPPER-PLATE OF GUPTA YEAR 169.
12 samgrihya Jangöyikä-grāmē Görakshita-tamrapaṭṭa-dakshinēna Gōpalibhōgāyā paśchiměna khila
13 kshēttra-kulyavapa-chatushtayam dattam ku 4 [*] Te yüyam-ēvam viditva kuṭumvi.
(mbi)nām karshan-avirōdhi-sthanë
14 Darvvikarmma-hasten-ashṭaka-navaka-nalabhyam-apaviñchhya
chira-kala-sthayi-tush
ängar-ādi-chihnais-chaturddi
15 n-niyamita-sammanam kritvä dasyatha datvä(ttva) ch-akshaya-nivi-dharmmēņa sasvat ka-lam-anupalayishyatha
Reverse.
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16 varttamana-bhavishyais-cha samvyavaharibhir-ētad-dharmm-āpēkshay-anupalayitavyam=
iti [*] Uktañ-cha bhaga
17 [vata Vyājse[na] [*] Sva-dattam paradattam va yo harēta vasundharam [*] sa vishthayam krimir-bhūtvā pitribhiḥ saha
18 pachyate [*] [Shashtim] varsha-sahasrani svargë môdati bhumidaḥ [*] akshēptā ch=ānumanța cha tany-ēva na
19 rakē vaset [*] Sarh 100 60 9 Vai sudi 8
TRANSLATION.
(Ll. 1-2) Hail! From the (royal) grant (agrahara) of Ambila village, our Head of the District (Vishayapati) Chhattramaha', with confidence intimates, addresses in writing and informs the Court (Adhikarana), as well as the Brahmanas, the chief officers and others, and also the householders, at the village of Jangōyikä, after having enquired about their well-being:
(Ll. 3-7) "I wish to make over, for the sake of the increase of my religious merit, 4 kulyavapas of fallow land, after (it) has been purchased, to the Brāhmaṇa...... svamin, an inhabitant of the agrahara of Khatäpürapa in Nanda-vithi, belonging to the Kasyapa-göttra and the Chhändōga(-charana of the Samaveda), to enable him to perform the Five Great Sacrifices. Now, in your District (vishaya) there is established the system of sale at the rate of two dināras per each kulyavapa of fallow land, originally devoid of vegetation, which does not yield any revenue (to the State) and being under perpetual endowment (akshaya-nivi) can be enjoyed eternally, as long as the moon, the sun and the stars endure. So you should aecept from me eight dināras and grant (me) by means of a copper-plate, for the sake of perpetual endowment, four kulyavapas of fallow land in the village of Jangōyikā."
(Ll. 8-11) Whereas it has been ascertained on enquiry by the Record-keepers, Pradyōtasimha and Bandhudasa, that there is established in this District the system of sale at the rate of two dināras per each kulyavapa of fallow land, originally devoid of vegetation, which does not yield any revenue (to the State), and whereas there can be no loss of income to the Crown in such sale of revenue-free fallow land-rather in case of gift a sixth part of the religious merit would accrue to the King (Paramabhaṭṭāraka-pada)-now therefore let (the land) be granted.
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1 [See p. 54 n. 2. I should translate: 'From.. Ambila (the Ayuktakas). and write to (bodhayanti likhanti cha) the Court that Fishayapati Chhatramaha informs us. Cf. sa-visvasam in a Damodarpur copper-plate; ante, Vol. XV, p. 136, 1. 2.
The term withi is used in the sense of a part of a district or sub-division. Cf. Majumdar, Inscriptions of Bengal, Vol. III, p. 71.
. intimate -Ed.
The five sacrificial rites are bali, charu, vaiévadeva, agnihotra and atithi.
The expression akshayanivi is used in 1. 6 as well as in 1. 7 in the fifth case, evidently as hetas. In the Baigrām oopper-plate, 1. 17 it has the same case-ending in this sense.
The reigning king is thus referred to also in other grants, e.g., in Baigram (1. 13), Damodarpur, No. 5 (11. 12. 13, where the correct reading should be dharmma-shad-bhag-äväpti), and in Faridpur grant of Dharmaditya (Ind. Ant., Vol. XXXIX, p. 195, 1. 13).