Indian Epigraphy c11.t7.37

c11.t7.37

For a simpler notification we may refer to the Sasanakota plates,² in which we have: “On the 10th day of the bright fortnight in the month of Phālguna in the first year of his own [reign] with his extensive sovereignty ever on the increase, [the illustrious Mādhavavarman] has given to Dhāraśarman of the Vatsa *gotra* and the Taittirīya *caraṇa*, for his own welfare, the village named Velputtoru in the district of Paru, as a gift for the Brāhmaṇa, carrying all the [customary] exemptions, with the libation of water.” The notification in Dadda’s grant,³ which is a lengthier one, begins with the statement of purpose which is ‘the increase of the glory and merit in this world and the next’ for the donor and his parents. This is followed by the name of the district and of the village granted, together with the specification of the privilege to be enjoyed by the donee, which included the collection of various taxes in cash and kind. The gift is stated to have been a perpetual one to be enjoyed by the donee and his descendants. Then come the names of the donee, his father, his *gotra* and the place of his origin, etc., as well as a reference to the libation of water. The occasion of the gift, which was omitted from this place, is recorded towards the end. It was the Rathasaptamī, the 7th day of the bright fortnight of Māgha, on which day, the gift of vehicles was supposed to be specially meritorious. It is thus interesting in this connection to note that the gift of land is stated in this case to have been accompanied with that of an elephant and a chariot. Boundaries are specified in the notification of such records as the Chevūru grant of Amma I,¹ which records a gift made in favour not of a Brāhmaṇa but of a warrior who received a village along with certain distinctions, as a reward for his meritorious services and devotion to the king, on the occasion of the anna-prāśana ceremony of a prince.²