258 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [September, 1873.
Translation.
[It] is given by pouring water to the Brah¬
mans and Jajjaka, the sons of Sihaditya,
residing in the—hman Agrahara, of the San-
4ilya gotra and student of the Maitrayaniya
[sakha], to be enjoyed‘by their descendants as
long as the moon, the sun, and the oceans
endure, on the occasion of Rahu’s touching the
disk of the sun, for the performance of the
Brahma ceremonies lali, charu, and Vaisvadeva,
with a view to the increase of the holy merit
and fame of himself and parents. No country
officer shall hinder or obstruct these two in the
enjoyment of this. And future kings, whether of
our race or others, bearing in mind the common
fruit arising from grants of land, the transitori¬
ness of all power, and the fact that humanity
is as fleeting as a drop of water standing on the
leaf of a lotus blown over by a violent breeze ;
seeing that life is full of ineradicable misery,
and momentary; observing that the store of
wealth accumulated with excessive toil is as
unsteady as the flame of a lamp open to (in
contact with) wind; desirous of being free from
censure; wishing themselves to be, like the
regions of the sky, shrouded in a veil of glory
as pure as the light of the autumnal moon with
her spotless disk; and endowed with the purest
mind, should, at our solicitations, confirm this
grant of ours. And having reflected on the
declaration of the covenant about the five car¬
dinal sins laid down by pious kings of old, and
mentioned by the Munis Vyasa and others, they
should, at our repeated solicitations, remember
this saying of the authors of the Smritis :—The
grantor of land dwells in Heaven for sixty
thousand years; while he who resumes it, or
approves of its being so resumed, dwells in
hell for as many years. He who takes away the
land granted by himself or others incurs the sin
of killing a hundred thousand cows. The
resumers of Brahman gifts are bora as large
serpents dwelling in the dry hollows of trees
in the waterless forests of the Vindhya. What
good man will resume the gifts made by former
kings for the sake of religious merit, prosperity,
and fame, which are like flowers once worn or
matter vomited ? Thus reflecting that prosper¬
ity and human life are as fleeting as a drop of
water on a lotus-leaf, and calling to mind all
that is said here, one should not blot out the
fame of others. Five hundred and eighty-five
years of the Guptas having elapsed, the king
granted this when the disk of the Bun was
eclipsed. Jajnagya, of a pure mind, has written
this charter of the king who rivals Nriga and
Nahusha—a charter containing graceful lines of
letters, charming on account of the use of apt
words, distinguished by its virtuous precepts,
and shining by its good and auspicious utter¬
ances, like a Brahman whose mouth abounds
with such. Sam vat 585,5th of the bright half of
Phalguna. Sign-manual of Jainka. Engraved
by Deddaka the son of Sankara.
PAPERS ON &ATRTJNJAYA AND THE JAINS.
IV.—Translation from Lassen's Alter thvmskunde, TV. 771 seqq.
By E. Rehatsek, 3f. C.E.
(Concluded from p. 200J
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