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 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 The posmogonic system of the Jainas agrees I excels it only in exaggerations; and the Jainas on the whole with that of the Purdnasf and I have, in some respects, transformed in a pecu-