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³ Nāsik Nos. 10 and 12, *EI*, viii, Uṣabhadāta's charities and public works were on a more lavish scale; gifts of 300,000 cows and sixteen villages to Brāhmans; construction of rest-houses at Bhārukacha, Daśapura, Govardhana, and Sopāraga; the feeding of a thousand Brāhmans the whole year round; the establishment of free ferries by boats on the rivers Iba, Parada, Damana, Tapi, Karabena, and Dahanuka; and meeting-halls on both banks of these rivers; the construction of wells, tanks, and gardens for the use of his subjects, &c.