History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.438

v4.c62.438

²⁵² The passage in the plate of Sivaskandavarman (E. I. vol. I. pp. 8-9) is rendered by Dr. Bühler as 'this garden ...... is to be free from taxes, free from the taking of sweet and sour milk, free from troubles about (*Continued from the last page*) salt and sugar (aloṇagula-cchobhaṁ=alavaṇa-guḍa-kṣobhaṁ), free from taxes, forced labour, ... free from the taking of the oxen in succession, free from the taking of grass and wood, free from the taking of vegetables and flowers; with these and other immunities of eighteen kinds it must be exempted &c.' (evaṁādikehi aṭṭhārasajatiparihārehi). Vide Vilavatti grant of Pallava king Siṁhavarman for a long enumeration of taxes collected from villages in South India in E. I. vol. 24 p. 296 and a copperplate grant of the Śilāhāra king Aparājita dated śake 915, where in granting a garden to a brāhmaṇa occur the following words 'सान्तरङ्गः सदण्डदशापराधः प्रधार्मानिर्धानैकदोषवज्ज्यः इतरसमस्तापुत्र्वालीयक-कुमारीसाहसप्रभृतिदण्डदोषसमन्वितः पूर्वदत्तदेवदायब्रह्मदेयवर्जितः समस्तारायस्थानसहितः ...... दत्तः; in 'Important Inscriptions from Baroda' vol. 1 edited by Mr. A. S. Gadre (p. 55 at p. 61). कुमारीसाहस appears to mean the 'fine levied for violating a virgin or her modesty'.