Indian Epigraphy c13.2

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¹ See JRAS, 1912, pp. 248 ff., p. 476; 1913, pp. 388-89; IHQ, Vol. III, p. 432; Vol. VI, pp. 775 ff. ; S. Lévi, Le Népal, III, pp. 122 ff.; P. V. Kane, History of Dharmaśāstra, Vol. II, pp. 1271 ff. G. H. Khare quotes, without references, a large number of stanzas in his Marāṭhī work Saṁśodhakācā Mitra, pp. 20-37. But many of the verses quoted by him have nothing to do with gift of land and are apparently not quotations from ancient works. By way of illustration, we may refer to the stanza Karmaṇā manasā vācā, etc. (p.24), quoted from the charters of Harṣavardhana (cf. Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 211, text lines 13-14) and the two verses Yasy=ānvaye bhūpatir=eṣa jātaḥ, etc. (p. 32), which really form part of an endorsement at the end of the Mahada plates (cf. ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 292, text lines 32-38). An early copper-plate grant quoting two of the stanzas, Bahubhir=vasudhā dattā, etc. (No. 23, note) and Sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā, etc. (No. 132), is the Gunapadeya plates (c. third quarter of the 4th century) of the time of Pallava Skandavarman (Select Inscriptions, p. 445). The inscription is in Prakrit and the quotation has not been referred to any source. For such verses in an early Śālaṅkāyana charter of about the same age, see Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI, p. 6.