गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

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kara,¹ (and with the privilege that it is) not to be entered by the irregular or regular
troops;² (but) with the exception of (the right to fines imposed on) thieves.³
(L. 13.)—Therefore, even in future times, no obstacle (to the enjoyment of this
grant) is to be caused by those who are born in Our family, or by my feudatories.⁴ This
injunction having been given, he who behaves otherwise,—him I will consume with a great
contempt, even when I have passed into another body.
(L. 15.)—And it has been said by the venerable supreme sage,⁵ the arranger of the
and udgrantha (? udgrâha), and thus seems to mean ‘the share of the produce collected usually for
the king.’—The only passage in which it occurs otherwise than among the technical conditions of a
grant, is in connection with Kharagraha II.; e.g. in line 46 of the Alînâ grant of Śîlâditya VII. of the
year 447, No. 39 below, Plate xxv.—In this passage, as it is given in line 46 of the grant of Śîlâditya
III. of the year 352 (Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 308), it appears to be spelt with a double d, uddraṅga; so
also in line 10 of the grant of the Mahârâja Guhasêna of the year 246 (id. Vol. IV. p. 175.)
¹ uparikara is a technical fiscal term, the meaning of which has not been made clear. But I
would suggest that the first component is the Prâkṛit word upari or upri (see Molesworth and Candy’s
Marâṭhî Dictionary, and Wilson’s Glossary of Indian Terms; and that the term denotes ‘a tax levied
on cultivators who have no proprietary rights in the soil.’
² a-châṭa-bhaṭa-prâvêśya; a technical term of constant occurrence.—Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji
(Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 175, note 41) takes châṭa-bhaṭa as meaning