Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.t2: No. I
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.t2
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No. I
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*Grant of the Rathor Rani, the Queen-Mother of Udaipur, on the death of her Son, the Heir-Apparent, Prince Amra.*
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Siddh Sri Bari¹ Rathorji to the Patels and inhabitants of Girwa.² The four bighas of land, belonging to the Jat Roga, have been assigned to the Brahman Kishna on the Anta Samya (final epoch) of Lalji.³ Let him possess the rents thereof.⁴ The dues for wood and forage (khar lakar) contributions (barar) are renounced by the State in favour of the Brahmans. Samvat 1875, Amavas 15th of Asoj, A.D. 1819.
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¹ The great Rathor queen. There were two of this tribe; she was the queen-mother. ² [The tract in the centre of the State, including Udaipur city.] ³ An endearing epithet, applied to children, from larla, beloved. ⁴ It is customary to call these grants to religious orders ‘grants of land,’ although they entitle only the rents thereof; for there is no seizin of the land itself, as numerous inscriptions testify, and which, as well as the present, prove the proprietary right to be in the cultivator only. The tamba-pattra,* or copper-plate patent (by which such grants are probably designated) of Yasodharman,† the Pramara prince of Ujjain, seven hundred years ago, is good evidence that the rents only are granted; he commands the crown tenants of the two villages assigned to the temple “to pay all dues as they arise—money-rent—first share of produce,” not a word of seizing of the soil. See *Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society*, vol. i. p. 223. ⁵ [The sacred basil plant, *Ocymum sanctum*.]