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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 39, PLATE XXV. 171
it occurs; (and with the privilege that it is) not to be (even) pointed at with the hand
(of undue appropriation) by any of the king's people.¹
(L. 29.)—"Wherefore, no one should behave so as to cause obstruction to this
person in enjoying (it) in accordance with the proper conditions of a grant to a Brâhmaṇ,
(and) cultivating (it), (or) causing (it) to be cultivated, or assigning (it to another).
(L. 30.)—"And this Our gift should be assented to and preserved by future pious
kings, born of Our lineage, bearing in mind that riches do not endure for ever, that
the life of man is uncertain, and that the reward of a gift of land belongs in common
(both to him who makes it and to him who continues it). And he shall become invested
with (the guilt of) the five great sins, together with the minor sins, who may confiscate
this (grant), or assent to its confiscation."
**(L. 32.)—**And it has been said by the venerable Vyâsa, the arranger of the Vêdas:—
The giver of land abides 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! O Yudhishṭhira, best of kings, carefully preserve land that has previously
been given to the twice-born; (verily) the preservation (of a grant) is more meritorious
than making a grant! 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 re-
ward (of this grant that is now made, if he continue it)!
(L. 35.)—(This charter) has been written by the Sâṁdhivigrahika Skandabhaṭa.
(This is) the sign-manual² of me, the Mahârâja, the illustrious Dharasêna. The
Dûtaka (is) Chirbira. The year 200 (and) 50 (and) 2; (the month) Vaiśâkha; the dark
fortnight; (the lunar day) 10 (and) 5.

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No. 39; PLATE XXV.

ALINA COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF SILADITYA VII.

THE YEAR 447.

THIS inscription was discovered by Mr. Harivallabh, Assistant Deputy Educational
Inspector, Kaira and Broach; and was first brought to notice in 1878, in the Ind. Ant.
Vol. VII. p. 79 ff., where Dr. Bühler published his reading of the text, with remarks. It is
on some copper-plates that were found either at, or in the neighbourhood of, Alînâ or
Alîṇâ, a village about fourteen miles north-east of Naḍiâd,³ the chief town of the Naḍiâd
Tâlukâ or Sub-Division of the Kaira (Khêḍâ) District in Gujarât in the Bombay Presidency.

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cut, reaped, or mowed.'—Instead of vâta-bhûta, we sometimes have bhûta-vâta, in reversed order;
e.g. in line 67 of No. 39 below, Plate xxv.
¹ samasta-râjakîyânâm=a-hasta-prakshêpaṇîya. This is the customary expression in the
Valabhî grants. From the south, we have (1) the almost identical expression râjakîyânâm=an-
aṅguli-prêkshaṇîya, e.g. in line 45 of the Goa grant of Shashṭhadêva II. of Kaliyuga-Saṁvat 4348,
(Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 291); and (2) the variant râja-râjapurushair=apy=an-aṅguli-nirdêśya, in
line 61 of the Paiṭhan grant of Râmachandra of Śaka-Saṁvat 1193 (id. Vol. XIV. p. 317).
² sva-hasta; lit. 'the own hand.'—Occasionally an actual representation of a sign-manual is
given: e.g. at the end of the grant of Sîlâditya VII., No. 39 below, Plate xxv., and at the end of
the Barôda grant of Dhruva II. of Śaka-Saṁvat 757 (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 198 f. and Plate).
³ The 'Nadiád, Nariad, and Neriad' of maps, &c.
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