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 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.

[FEB. 2, 1872.

sun, ocean, earth, rivers, and mountains endure. Therefore, no one shall obstruct the reverend men dicant priests in the act of ploughing the land, causing it to be ploughed or assigning it over [to some person], in virtue of this its condition as an assignment to gods. All future kings, whe ther of our race or others, bearing in mind that

of land, should recognize this our grant and con tinue it. It is said, &c. (the rest as in the transla tion of the plate at page 16.) The prince Dhru

power is transitory and humanity frail, and know

half of Māgha.

vasen a is executive officer here.

Engraved by Divirapati Skandabhata, the son of D i v i r a pati V a tra (?) bh at ti, minister

for peace and war. S. 326, the fifth day of the dark My own hand.

ing the good fruits ordinarily arising from grants I’LATE II.

Transcript of the second half of another grant to a Buddhist Monastery, found in the ruins of Valabhi.

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Shri Shila. . . the great Māheshvara, whose other name, procured for him by the enjoyment. . . was Dharm āditya, commands persons in office or holding commissions. . . . . great [and small] and others. . . . . “Be it known to you, that for the in crease of the religious merit of my mother and father, I [have assigned a field named. . . . . on the north ern side of the river, in the village of Raksha ra-putra [?] in Pal a tir ol a h m a [?]; and also a field. . . . in the village of Ud rap a dra ka, to the assembly of the reverend mendicant priests coining from the four quarters, and residing in the
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monastery constructed by. . . . for [providing] clothing, food, and [the means of) sleeping and sit ting . . . . and for the purpose of [providing] fra grant ointment, incense, flowers, oil for lamps for the glorious Buddhas, and for the repairing of the in onastery [lit. Putting aright the broken parts]. These fields are granted by pouring water, along with their appurtenances, &c. &c.” [the rest as usual]. The son Bhatt i di ty a -y a shah is execu tive officer here. Written . . . . . 286 on the 6th day of Vaishâkha vadya. My own hand.

MANDARA IIILL. By BABU RASBIHARI BOSE, BANKA.

This hill stands in the midst of a large plain near Baus it which was lately the head quarters of a sub-division of the district of Bhāg a 1 pur in Bihar. It is of granite and almost devoid of vegetation except near the summit and on one

steps cut in the rock, which run up about two thirds of the way ; but as the hill is upwards of

700 feet high, and is extremely steep and rugged near the top, very few persons can reach the

side where it is generally overgrown with low

summit without halting in the middle of the journey.

jungle. The ascent has been rendered easy by

This hill occupies a large place in the ancient


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Bhumichchhidra

consideration of her having taken it, gave her a boon, that all holes made in her would be filled up in time. The sense

myāya, which occurs in a great many copperplates, and which

of the sentence then is-that ‘a grant is to last as long as the sun, the mºon, &c. shall endure on the principle of holes

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—This

expression

no one has yet attempted to explan, may have some refer ence to the circumstance that holes in the earth are not per manent but are filled up in the course of time. That this fact was often the subject of thought and remark is shown by the story (in the Taitt. Sam. 11.5, and in the Bhāgavata VI. 9 and other works) that Indra transferred the sin he incurred by killing Vishvarūpa, the son of Tvash

tri–among other objects and persons—to the earth, and in

in the earth (ny a ya means a principle cf. the T a kra

IS a und in ya and other n y á y a s) that is, as holes in the earth are filled up in time and the earth is whole again and so unchanged, so a grant should survive all revolutions &c. and last unchanged for ever.
 * 1) It is on the east side of the river Chandan, 2) miles N. of

Bausi and 29 S. Bhagalpur in Lat, 24°50′ N, Long, si- 0. E.-Ed.