The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s3.t2.49

v2.c16.s3.t2.49

“And through these classes (of deeds) are people rendered disobedient—viz. by enviousness, by the practice of destroying life, by tyranny, by cruelty, by idleness, by laziness, by waste of time. That morality is to be desired which is based on my ordinances (?) and in all these the roots (or leading principles) are,—the non-destruction of life, and the non-infliction of cruelty. May the desire of such moral guidance endure unto the end of time! and may these (principles), continuing to rise (in estimation), ever flourish; and inasmuch as this benefit and love should be ever had in remembrance, my desire is that in this very manner, these (ordinances) shall be pronounced aloud by the person appointed to the *stūpa*; and adverting to nothing else but precisely according to the commandment of Devanampiya, let him (further) declare and explain them.