THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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TRANSLATION.
[It] is given by pouring water to the Brah
..mans—and Jajjāka, the sons of Sihāditya,
residing in the-hman Agrahāra, of the Sān dilya gotra and student of the Maitrāyanīya [šākhā], to be enjoyed by their descendants as long as the moon, the sun, and the oceans endure, on the occasion of Râhu's touching the disk of the sun, for the performance of the Brahma ceremonies bali, charu, and Vaiśvadeva,
with a view to the increase of the holy merit and fame of himself and parents. No country
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mentioned by the Munis Vyāsa 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 born as large serpents dwelling in the dry hollows of trees
in the waterless forests of the Vindhya. What
officer shall hinder or obstruct these two in the
good man will resume the gifts made by former
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
kings for the sake of religious merit, prosperity, and fame, which are like flowers once worn or
matter vomited 2 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
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
fame of others. Five hundred and eighty-five years of the Guptas having elapsed, the king granted this when the disk of the sun 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
mind, should, at our solicitations, confirm this
ances, like a Brahman whose mouth abounds
grant of ours.
declaration of the covenant about the five car
with such. Samvat 585, 5th of the bright half of Phâlguna. Sign-manual of Jäinka. Engraved
dinal sins laid down by pious kings of old, and
by Deddaka the son of Sankará.
wealth accumulated with excessive toil is as
unsteady as the flame of a lamp open to (in
And having reflected on the
PAPERS ON SATRUNJAYA AND THE JAINS. IV-Translation from Lassen's Alterthumskunde, IV. 771 seqq. By E. Rehatsek, M.C.E. (Concluded from p. 200.)
The cosmogonic system of the Jainas agrees on the whole with that of the Purúnas, and
only in exaggerations; and the Jainas have, in some respects, transformed in a pecu
excels it