Indian Epigraphy c16.s5.47

c16.s5.47

South Indian charters of the early medieval period such as the Paithan plates³ (794 A.D.) of Rāṣṭrakūṭa Govinda III record the donee’s privileges as : together with *udraṅga*; together with *parikara* (*sa-parikara*, the same as *s-oparikara* of many records); together with *daśāparādha*; together with *bhūta-pāta-pratyāya*; together with *viṣṭi* that may be due (*s-otpadyamāna-viṣṭika*); together with the dues in *dhānya* (crops) and *hiraṇya* (cash); free from the entry of the *Cāṭas* and *Bhaṭas*; not to be interfered with by any royal officer (*sarva-rājakīyānām-a-hasta-prakṣepaṇīya*); to last as long as the moon, the sun, the ocean, the earth, the rivers and the mountains endure; to be enjoyed by the sons, grandsons and descendants [of the donee]; excluding the property of the gods and Brāhmaṇas (*deva-brahma-dāya*) that was previously granted; together with *abhyantara-siddhi* (i.e. internal income or revenues, or the local taxes); and according to the principle of *Bhūmi-cchidra*. In these, *sarva-rājakīyānām-a-hasta-prakṣepaṇīya* is the same as *samasta-rājakīyānām-apraveśya*, ‘not to be entered by any of the king's people', as in records like the Ilao plates¹ of Dadda II, and rāja-sevakānām vasatidaṇḍa-prayāṇadaṇḍau na staḥ, 'no tax or contribution for the camping and passage of the king's officers', in the Paithan plates² of Rāmacandra.