Indian Epigraphy c13.265

c13.265

⁴ CII, Vol. III, pp. 96, 104, 238, 247, etc. Often we have Ṣaṣṭi-varṣa° or Ṣaṣṭir=varṣa°. Sometimes modati is found replaced by nandati (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 16, text line 12) or tiṣṭhati (CII, Vol. III, pp. 167, 180) or vasati (ibid., p. 194), and ācchettā by ākṣeptā (ibid., pp. 108, 137, 296). The first quarter is sometimes found as Kalpa-koṭi-sahasrāṇi (Ind. Ant., Vol. XX, p. 417, text line 48), the second quarter as modate divi bhūmidaḥ (Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 333, verse 3), and the first half as A-saṅkhyeyāni varṣāṇi svarge modanti bhūmidaḥ (Ep. Ind., XXIV, p. 303, text line 29). We also have ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-śatāni ca for the second quarter and gavāṁ koṭi-pradānena bhūmi-hartā na śudhyati in the second half (ibid., Vol. IX, p. 6, text lines 26-27). The second half is sometimes given as kṣiti-pātr-ānna-hartā tad=dvitayaṁ narakaṁ vrajet (Ind. Ant., Vol. V, p. 56). For yāvad=ā-bhūta-samplavam in the fourth foot, see Ep. Ind., Vol. XVIII, p. 299, text lines 34-35. The stanza occurs in the Padma Purāṇa, VI, 33, 29-30 (with ṣaṣṭi°, tiṣṭhati and āhartā); Skanda Purāṇa, op. cit., verse 26 (with vasati and narakaṁ vrajet); Bṛhaspatisaṁhitā, verse 29 (with v=ānumantā ca tam=eva and the omission of the first half); Viṣṇudharmottara quoted by Hemādri, op. cit., p. 486, and by Aparārka, op. cit., p. 369. It is in Nīlakaṇṭha’s Dānamayūkha (IHQ, Vol. VI, p. 776).