Indian Epigraphy c11.t7.24

c11.t7.24

A gift of land was sometimes made at the request of the donor’s mother, wife or some other relative and, in some cases, also of an official or subordinate or a different ruler.⁵ There are cases of grants made in return for a service done by the donee or his ancestors for the donor. Such donees sometimes belonged to communities other than the Brāhmaṇa. Thus the Pedda-Bammidi plates⁶ of Gaṅga Vajrahasta III record the grant of a village to a non-Brāhmaṇa for his satisfactory military service, while the Garra plates⁷ of Candella Trailokyavarman record the grant of land as *mṛtyuka-vṛtti* (literally, ‘death-grant’) in favour of a noble whose father died fighting the Muhammadans on the king’s behalf. The gifts were