Indian Epigraphy c13.198

c13.198

¹ Mys. Arch. Rep., 1910, paragraphs 47-50. The second stanza is sometimes found as : Hanti jātān=ajātāṁś=ca bhūmy-arthe yo='nṛtaṁ vadet | sa baddho vārunaiḥ pāśais=tiryag=yonyāṁ tu jāyate || (Ep. Ind., Vol. XIX, p. 213, text lines 33-34). Cf. Mahābhārata, Udyoga-parvan, Calcutta ed., Chapter 35, verses 33-34; Kumbakonam ed., Chapter 35, verses 44-45, where the first foot of the first stanza and the second foot of the second read respectively as Pañca paśv-anṛte hanti and hiraṇy=ārthe='nṛtaṁ vadan, while the second stanza ends with vadeh instead of vadet. For the first verse, cf. Rāmāyaṇa, IV, 34: 9: Śatam=aśv-anṛte hanti sahasraṁ tu gav-ānṛte | ātmānaṁ svajanaṁ hanti puruṣaḥ puruṣ-anṛte || See also Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 43 ff. : Pañca kany-ānṛte hanti daśa hanti gav-ānṛte | śatam=aśv-anṛte hanti sahasraṁ puruṣ-ānṛte || hanti jātān=ajātāṁś=ca hiraṇy-ārthe='nṛtaṁ vadet | sarvaṁ bhūmy-anṛte hanti māsma bhūmy-anṛtaṁ vadīḥ || Sometimes we have janiṣyān for ajātān.