Indian Epigraphy c13.110

c13.110

¹ Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 343, text lines 30-31; p. 348, text lines 24-25. Sometimes we have yas=tu for yaś=ca (ibid., Vol. XI, p. 312) and niyatau (ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 292, text line 26) or dvāv=etau (ibid., Vol. XXII, p. 194, text line 19) for niyataṃ. The stanza is found in the Padma Purāṇa, VI, 33, 35-36; Vṛddha-Hāritasmṛti, VII, 164; Bṛhaspatisaṃhitā, verse 33 (with bhūmiṃ yasya in the second foot). It is attributed to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati in Ballāla's Dānasāgara (op. cit., p. 317), to the Kūrma Purāṇa in the Dānacandrikā (with tāv=ubhau puruṣau loke sūrya-maṇḍala-bhedinau) and to Bṛhaspati in Halāyudha's Brāhmaṇasarvasva (IHQ, Vol. VI, p. 777). See also the Mitākṣarā on the Yājñavalkyasmṛti, II, 114. A verse modified from this stanza (cf. also No. 27) seems to be : Upadeśi ca dātā ca niyatau svarga-vāsinau | upadeśi prathamam yāti paścād=dātā Dhanañjaya || (A. R. Ep., 1946-47, No. B 205). Another such stanza is Dātā ca prerakaś=c=aiva ye dharma-pratipālakāḥ | te sarve puṇya-karmāṇo niyataṃ svarga-gāminaḥ || (Ind. Ant., Vol. XI, p. 243, text lines 40-41).