[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896) › c8.154 # Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.154 Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.154 - **Language:** English ### [c8.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.154) A very old specimen of all possible kinds of presents is found in the cave inscriptions of Uṣabhadāta in Nāsik² of about the first century A. D. who relates there \*inter alia\* that every year he has fed 100000 Brahmans, given 100000 cows and 16 villages to Brahmans, given wives to 8 Brahmans, built a staircase at a holy bathing place on the river Banas and rectangular serais and gardens, dug tanks and sunk wells for drinking water, built ferries, inns, water stations, cisterns and a cave for monks and assigned a field to the monks living in that cave for their maintenance, and that he has invested money in guilds of merchants on interest etc. - [Previous: c8.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.153) - [Next: c8.155](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.155) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.154) · Pramāṇa