Indian Epigraphy c13.291

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2. *CII*, Vol. III, pp. 104, 108, 137. In some cases, the first foot is found as: *Sarva-śasya-samṛddhām tu* (ibid., pp. 11, 122, 127, 133) and the second foot as: *yo hared=vasudhām=iha* (*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXVIII, p. 114, text line 27). In the second half, sometimes we find *sva-viṣṭhāyām* (*CII*, Vol. III, pp. 119, 137) and *sva-viṣṭhāyām* (*JASB*, Vol. VI, 1910, p. 436) instead of *sa viṣṭhāyām*, and *majjati* or *majjate* (*CII*, Vol. III, pp. 108, 119, 137) instead of *pacyate*, and the last three words also as: *pacyate pitṛbhiḥ saha* (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XXXIX, 1910, p. 196). Sometimes the first half is given as: *Para-dattām sva-dattām vā yo harati nar-ādhamah* (*Ep. Carn.*, Vol. VII, Tm. No. 51) and the second half is modified as: *ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi viṣṭhāyām kṛmiḥ* (*CII*, Vol. III, p. 289) or as *gavām śata-sahasrasya hantur=harati (or pibati) duṣkṛtam* (ibid., pp. 238, 247; sometimes *hantuḥ pibati kilbiṣam* in the last quarter, —*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXXI, p. 80, text lines 43-3), or *ṣaṣṭim varṣa-sahasrāṇi narake pacyate tu saḥ* (ibid., Vol. XVI, p. 267; cf. *bhṛśam for tu saḥ* in *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. VI, p. 26, line 26), or *ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi Kumbhīpāke sa pacyate* (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. VI, p. 25, text line 16; or *niraye sa vipacyate*—ibid., p. 30, line 16; or *ghore tamasi vartate*—*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XIV, p. 335, verse 90), or *tena jātā janayitā narake pātita dhruvam* (*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XII, p. 203), or *śvāna-yoni-śatam gatvā Cāṇḍāleṣv=abhijāyate* (ibid., Vol. XX, p. 128, text line 21), or *narakān=na nivartante yāvac=candra-divākarau* (*Ep. Carn.*, Vol. VIII, Sb.No.477) or *sa rūpi kula-samyuktaḥ kalpāntam narakam vrajet* (ibid., Vol. X, Malur No. 57), or *na tasya narakād=ghorād=vidyate niṣkṛtiḥ kracit* (*Ep Ind.*, Vol. XVII, p. 304, verse 10), or *kaṭilā-śata-ghātinām: enasā pratipadyate* (ibid., Vol. XXXIII, p. 213, v.5). For *brahma-vṛttim haret=tu yaḥ (hareta yaḥ*—*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. II, p. 159) in the second foot, see Chhabra, *Antiquities of Chamba State*, II, p. 178. We have also *Aṅgam=ekam padam=ekam* and *divyam varṣa-sahasrāṇi jāyate Brahmarākṣasaḥ* in the second half (*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXIII, p. 143, text lines 12-13). For *divyam varṣa-sahasrāṇi* in the third foot, see *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XII, p. 121. The second half is sometimes given as: *ākṣeptā c=ānumantā ca sarvathā narakam vrajet* (*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XVII, p. 337, text line 13). In the Tan Kran (Cambodia) inscription of about the 7th century A.D., we have the second half as: *Avici-narake yāti pitṛbhiḥ saha bandhubhiḥ* (R. C. Majumdar, *Inscriptions of Kambuja*, p. 50). The stanza occurs in the *Padma Purāṇa*, op. cit., verses 28-29 (with *haret=tu* and *viṣṭhā-kṛmi*⁰), *Bhaviṣya Purāṇa*, op. cit., verse 34 (with the second half as *sa naro narake ghore kliṣyaty=ā pralay-āntikam*), *Brahma Purāṇa*, 115, 67 (with *ṣaṣṭi=varṣa*⁰ and *viṣṭhāyām jāyate kṛmiḥ*); *Bṛhaspatisaṃhitā*, verse 28 (with *harec=ca* and *sva-viṣṭhāyām*). In the *Viṣṇudharmoanya-dattā sva-mātā ca datta-bhūmiṁ parityajet || 133¹ Svalpām=api mahīṁ yas=tu dadāti śraddhay=ānvitaḥ | sa yāti Brahma-sadanaṁ yasmān=n=āvartate punaḥ|| 134² Svaṁ dātuṁ sumahac=chakyaṁ duḥkham=anyārtha-pālanaṁ | dānaṁ vā pālanaṁ v=eti danāc=chreyo=’nupālanaṁ || 135³