Indian Epigraphy c16.s5.33

c16.s5.33

The Semra plates¹ of Candella Paramardin states : "Be it known to you that the above-mentioned villages, with their water and land, with their movable and immovable belongings, defined by their boundaries, with that which is below and above the ground, with all past, future and present imposts (ādāya), entrance into them being forbidden to the Cāṭas and the rest...... have been given, for the sake of the increase of our own and our parents' merit and fame......with a libation of water from our hand purified by stems of kuśa grass, the wish for prosperity having been duly recited......to the Brāhmaṇas......the grant having been made in connection with the intended ground which is to descend to the sons, grandsons and further descendants [of the donees] for a period equal to the duration of the moon and the sun.........Knowing this, you must bring to the donees the [royal] share [of the crops], the [periodical] offerings [payable to the king] and everything else. Therefore nobody shall cause any hindrance to them (i.e. the donees) if they enjoy, cultivate, cause to be cultivated, give away, mortgage or sell these villages, together with their houses and walls, together with their gates of exit and entrance, together with all their plants, viz. *asana*, sugarcane, cotton, hemp, mangoes, *madhūkas*, and so forth, together with their forests, hollows and treasure-troves, together with their mines of metal and so forth, together with their cow-houses, together with all other objects found within their boundaries, and together with the external and internal incomes.”