Indian Epigraphy c11.t2.10

c11.t2.10

It is interesting to note that the Madras Museum plates, specifically called a *kraya-śāsana*, quote the usual imprecatory and benedictory verses meant for the *tāmra-śāsanas* or charters recording revenue-free gifts of land. This is because, as the *Mitākṣarā*¹ explains, the Indians of old extolled the gift of land and rather deprecated the sale of landed property, which they also preferred to represent as a gift. This attitude of the ancient Indians was responsible for the representation even of a sale of land in the form of a gift in the record referred to above.