History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c43.87.4

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There are many instances where kings making grants of a field say that they purchased it from the owner and then bestowed it. For example, in E. I. vol. 17 p. 345 there is a grant by Kumāragupta (G. S. 193) of this character and see p. 856 above where such a grant is referred to. Even in the most ancient grants what is granted is set out with great particularity. A few examples will show this. In the Nasik Inscription No. 3 of Vāsiṭhīputa²⁰²⁷ Siri-Puḷumāyi (E. I. vol. 8 p. 65) the grant is in these words ‘And to this village of Sāmalipada (Śālmalipadra) we grant the immunity belonging to monk's land, making it not to be entered by royal officers, not to be touched (by any of them), not to be dug for salt, not to be interfered with by the district police, (in short) to enjoy all kinds of immunities’. So also the Mayidavolu plates²⁰²⁸ of the Pallava Śivaskandavarman state (E. I. vol. VI, p. 87) ‘to this village of Viripara we grant all the immunities enjoyed by the *brahmadeyas*. Let it be free from digging for salt, free from being interfered with by the district police (or officers), free from supply of bullocks in succession, free from the entrance of soldiers, free from supply of boiled rice, water pots, cots and lodgings, with these and all other immunities prescribed (by rules) regarding all *brahmadeyas*, we have caused it to be exempted’. In the Gupta Inscriptions No. 55, p.