History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c43.84

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²⁰⁸³ दत्त्वा भूमिं निबन्धं वा कृत्वा लेख्यं तु कारयेत् । आगामिभद्रनृपतिपरिज्ञानाय पार्थिवः ॥ पटे वा ताम्रपट्टे वा स्वमुद्रोपरिचिह्नितम् । अभिलेख्यात्मनो वंश्यानात्मानं च महीपतिः ॥ प्रतिग्रहपरीमाणं दानच्छेदोपवर्णनम् । स्वहस्तकालसंपन्नं शासनं कारयेत्स्थिरम् ॥ या. I. 318-320. विश्वरूप on या. I. 318-320 reads दानाच्छेदोपवर्णनम् and remarks 'एतद् दानफलम्, एतदाच्छेदनफलं षष्टिं वर्ष...नरके वसेत् इत्यादि.' For the verse षष्टिं...वसेत् vide Appendix. Nibandha is a fixed payment to be made every year or month or on certain occasions to a person or temple or the like, as for example of so many betel leaves or betelnuts out of each load of betel leaves or nuts. It is translated rather inaccurately as corrody by Colebrooke and others. Viśvarūpa on Yāj. II. 124 explains it as ‘a permanent endowment’ (akṣayanidhi); the Mit. explains ‘एकस्य भाण्डभरकस्येयन्तो रूपकाः एकस्य पर्णभरकस्येयन्ति पर्णानि’. The Mit. explains ‘दानच्छेदोपवर्णनम्’ differently as ‘दीयते इति दानं क्षेत्रादि तस्य छेदः...नद्याघाटौ (–घाटो ?) निर्वर्तनं तत्परिमाणं च तस्योपवर्णनम्’; अपरार्क p. 579 ‘अस्मिन् ग्रामे प्रतिक्षेत्रं क्षेत्रस्वामि नैतद्धनमस्मै प्रत्यहं प्रतिमासं वा देयम्’. This passage of Yāj. is cited in *The Collector of Thana v. Hari* 6 Bom. 546 (F. B.) at pp. 557–558 and the definition of nibandha from the Vyavahāramayūkha in *Ghelabhai v. Hargovan* 36 Bom. 94 at p. 101. One of the verses of बृहस्पति is अनाच्छेद्यमनाहार्यं सर्वभाव्यविवर्जितम् । चन्द्रार्कसमकालीनं पुत्रपौत्रान्वयागतम् ॥ (अपरार्क p. 579). For examples of the grants of nibandhas, vide E. I. vol. XIV p. 295 at p. 309 where memerous dues on articles are given to a temple by the Paramāra king Cāmuṇḍarāja (on one bharaka of candied sugar and jaggery one varṇakā and on loads of cotton thread dyed with mañjiṣṭhā one rupee, one cocoanut on a load of cocoanuts, one betel-nut from one thousand nuts, one palikā on each jar of ghee or oil), E. I. vol. XII at p. 331 (Inscription at Yewur dated 1105 A. D. as to a gift of nibandha for the benefit of a temple of Keśava ‘on sales of areca nuts an impost of five areca nuts on each gold piece and 25 leaves on each load of betel leaves’), E. I. vol. XI p. 26 at p. 30 the grant of one *hāra* of barley corn for each water wheel for the worship of a Jain saint in saṁvat 1167), E. I. vol. XI. p. 35 (grant in saṁ. 1189 for two *palikās* of oil from each oil-mill payable to the shrine of a Jain saint), E. I. vol. XI. p. 37. In the Mathurā Brāhmī Inscription of the 28th year of the reign of the Śaka king Devaputra Huviṣka (about the beginning of the 2nd century A. D.) a permanent endowment was called ‘akṣayanīvi (E. I. vol. 21 p. 55 at p. 60). So also the same word is used in the Nālandā stone Inscription of the time of Yaśovarmadeva with regard to a Buddhist temple (E. I. vol. 20 p. 37 at p. 39). Vide also E. I. vol. 15 p. 15 and E. I. vol. 17 p. 345 at p. 348. The Gupta Inscription No. 62 (p. 261) records the gift of twelve golden *dīnāras* made as an akṣayanīvi (a permanent endowment) from the interest of which one *bhikṣu* was to be fed every day.