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

124 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
maintenance of the bali, charu, sattra, and other (such rites), of the feet of the Divine
One, established here by these persons.
(L. 11.)—"You yourselves shall render to these persons the offering of the tribute
of the customary duties, royalties, taxes, gold, &c., and shall be obedient to (their)
commands.
(L. 12.)—"And those kings who shall be born in Our lineage,—by them this grant
should not be confiscated, (but) should be assented to; (and), with the exception of fines
imposed on thieves, the tribute of the taxes which by custom should not belong to the
king, should not be taken; and (this grant) should be preserved from time to time.
(L. 14.)—"And whosoever may confiscate this grant,—he shall become invested
with (the guilt of) the five great sins and the minor sins."
(L. 15.)—And it has been said in the Mahâbhârata by the venerable Vyâsa, the arranger
of the Vêdas,—"O Yudhishṭhira, best of kings, carefully preserve land that has been
given, whether by thyself or by another; (verily) the preservation (of a grant) (is) more
meritorious than making a grant! As a rule, indeed, no inauspicious condition is ex-
perienced by kings; but they are purified for ever, when they bestow land! The giver of
land enjoys happiness in heaven for sixty thousand years; (but) the confiscator (of a
grant), and he who assents (to an act of confiscation), shall dwell for the same number of
years in hell! The earth has been enjoyed by many kings, commencing with Sagara;
whosoever at any time possesses the earth, to him belongs, at that time, the reward (of this
grant that is now made, if he continue it)! He who confiscates land, rich in all (kinds
of) grains, (that has been granted),—he becomes a worm in ordure, and sinks (into hell),
together with his ancestors!"
(L. 21.)—In a century of years, increased by seventy-seven, on the twenty-second
day of the month Chaitra, (this charter) has been written by the Sâṁdhivigrahika Gallu,
the grandson of the Bhôgika, the Amâtya Phalgudatta,¹ (and) the son of the Bhôgika
Varâhadinna.² The Dûtaka (is) the Uparika, Dîkshita, householder, and chief of archi-
tects,³ Śarvadatta.
(L. 23.)—The boundaries in this matter (are),—in the direction of Dhânya-
vâhika,⁴ a boundary-trench and a bridge;⁵—in the direction of Durgamaṇḍala, a

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¹ See page 123 above, note 2.
² dinna is rather a rare word. But it occurs again(1) as the second part of a proper name, in
Indradinna, a Jain teacher (Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. pp. 247, 251), and perhaps in Vîkidinna, in line 25 of the
Mâliyâ grant of Dharasêna II., No. 38 below (where, however, it may be a name by itself); (2) as a
proper name by itself, in line 9 of the Nirmaṇḍ grant of the Mahâsâmanta and Mahârâja Samudra-
sêna, No. 80 below, Plate xliv., and in the case of a Jain teacher (Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. pp. 247, 252); and
(3) as the first component of the name of a village in Dinnâgrâma (Monier Williams’ Sanskrit Diction-
ary, s. v.) Also, we have a village or town named Diṇṇaputra, either a mistake or a local variation
for Dinnaputra, or more probably a mistake for Dinnâputra, in line 54 of one of the Dhâṅk grants
of Śîlâditya V. (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XI. p. 345; and Indian Inscriptions, No. 15.)
³ sthapati-samraj; see page 120 above, note 5.
⁴ Dhânyavâhika must have been a very common village-name in those parts, as the maps give
‘Danwai,’ ‘Dhanwahi’ (three times), ‘Dhunwahee,’ and ‘Dhunwai,’ all within a distance of thirty-two
miles from Uchaharâ, on the south-east, south, and south-west.
⁵ pâlî; or ‘a raised bank, dike, or causeway.’—This, also, if it did not occur five times in this
passage, and in five different directions, might be taken as a village-name; since the maps give ‘Pali,’
thirty-seven miles north-west, and again seventy miles south by east, from Uchaharâ.