Indian Epigraphy c13.96

c13.96

² CII, Vol. III, pp. 96, 104, 108. 115, 119, 122, 127, 133, etc., where this stanza is found together with Śaṣṭiṃ varṣa-sahasrāṇi, etc. (No. 123), which is also noticed in some cases without this one (cf. ibid., pp. 238, 247). Sometimes dattā (ibid., p. 296) appears instead of bhuktā and bahubhiś=anupālitā (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXI, p. 80, text line 43), or bhujyate ca punaḥpunaḥ (ibid., p. 66, text line 32), or rājabhiś=ca punaḥpunaḥ (ibid., Vol. XV, p. 1-39, verse 13), or bhujyate ca narādhipaiḥ (ibid., Vol. XVII, p. 304, verse 23), or bahudhā—ibid., Vol. XXI p. 25, text line 10) for rājabhiḥ Sagar-ādibhiḥ. Occasionally we have : Rājabhir=bahubhir=dattā (Iyaṃ rāja-śatair=dattā—ibid., Vol. XXII, p. 161, text line 22) diyate ca punaḥpunaḥ (ibid., Vol. XX, p. 159) in the first half which sometimes also reads as Manu-prabhṛtibhir=manyair=bhuktā yady=api rājabhiḥ (ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 75, text lines 11-12). For pārthivaiḥ instead of rājabhiḥ, see Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 267. The stanza occurs in the Padma Purāṇa, VI, 33; 26-27; Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, IV, 164, 22 (with bhuktā, for dattā); Skanda Purāṇa, op. cit., verse 25 (with rājabhiḥ pṛthivī tv=iyam); Bṛhaspataisaṃhitā, verse 26; also Vṛddha-Gautama, according to Aparārka, op. cit., p. 541. Ballāla (op. cit., pp. 316-17) attributes the stanza (with dattā for bhuktā) to the Dāna-Bṛhaspati. Cf. two analogous stanzas: Yas=tu pālayate bhūmiṃ bhūmipālas=tath=etaraḥ | sa dātuḥ phalam=āpnoti samaṃ dīrghaṃ ca jīvati || Yānti kālena rājāno mahī punar=avasthitā | tad=etāṃ yo yadā bhuṅkte sa tadā phalam=aśnute || (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXVI, pp. 18, 46).