Indian Epigraphy c13.91

c13.91

⁵ CII, Vol. III, p. 119. Sometimes we have naṇdanti tasya pitaraḥ or nṛtyanti pitaraḥ=tasya (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIX, p. 194, text line 35; Vol. XXV, p. 218, verse 38) in the first foot and valgayanti for pravalganti, or valganti ca and sa naḥ santārayiṣyati (ibid., Vol. XXV, 60, text lines 52-53; p. 218, verse 38). For Ānandanti ca pitaraḥ in the first foot, see Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, p. 164, text line 20. The stanza occurs in the Padma Purāṇa, VI, 33, 17 (with pitaro varṇayanti and bhūmi-dātā kule); Bṛhaspataisaṁhitā, verse 17 (with praharṣanti pitāmahāḥ); Skanda Purāṇa, op. cit., verse 24 (with kathayanti pitāmahāḥ and so=’smān=santārayiṣyati). Ballāla (Dānasāgara, op. cit., p. 317, with pravadanti and so=’smān=santārayiṣyati) and Aparārka (Yājñavalkiya-Dharmaśāstra-nibandha, Anandasrama Press, p. 370) assign it to Bṛhaspati and the Viṣṇudharmottara respectively.