Indian Epigraphy c13.41

c13.41

The following stanzas, quoted from epigraphic records and arranged alphabetically, may be divided primarily into two groups, viz. (1) those extolling the merit accruing to gifts in general and particularly to gifts of land especially those made in favour of the Brāhmaṇas, and (2) those denouncing the resumption of gift land in the possession of Brāhmaṇas in particular. Some of the stanzas have been quoted after removing the linguistic and metrical errors in their texts as found in the inscriptions, while a few could not be quoted because their full texts are either not decipherable owing to unsatisfactory preservation¹ or too erroneous to be reconstructed.² It is felt that some genuine quotations from the Dharmaśāstras and medieval poems in epigraphic records may have escaped our notice.