Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.t3: No. II
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.t3
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No. II
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*Grant held by a Brahman of Birkhera.*
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“A Brahman’s orphan was compelled by hunger to seek sustenance in driving an oil-mill; instead of oil the receptacle was filled with blood. The frightened oilman demanded of the child who he was; ‘A Brahman’s orphan,’ was the reply. Alarmed at the enormity of his guilt in thus employing the son of a priest, he covered the palm of his hand with earth, in which he sowed the tulasi seed,⁵ and went on a pilgrimage to Dwarka.
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∗ To distinguish them from grants of land to feudal tenants, which patents (patta) are manuscript. † [He defeated Mihiragula, leader of the White Huns, about A.D. 528 (Smith, *EHI*, 318).]
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He demanded the presence (*darsana*) of the god; the priests pointed to the ocean, when he plunged in, and had an interview with Dwarkanath, who presented him with a written order on the Rana for forty-five bighas of land. He returned and threw the writing before the Rana, on the steps of the temple of Jagannath. The Rana read the writing of the god, placed it on his head, and immediately made out the grant. This is three hundred and fifty years ago, as recorded by an inscription on stone, and his descendant, Kosala, yet enjoys it.” (A true Translation.) J. TOD.