History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.t2.165

v5.c74.t2.165

[^1457 a]: ब्रह्मज्ञानेन मुच्यन्ते नान्यथा जन्तव. क्वचित्। ब्रह्मज्ञानमये क्षेत्रे प्रयागे वा तनुत्यज. ॥ ब्रह्मज्ञान तदेवाह काशीसंस्थितिभागिनाम्। दिशामि तारक चान्ते मुच्यन्ते ते तु तत्क्षणात्॥ काशीखण्ड 32 115-116, vide also काशीखण्ड 86 48 and नारदीय (उत्तर) 47. 56, 59-62 and Varaṇā bestowed on 500 brāhmaṇas 30 villages on the Akṣayya-tṛtīyā of *saṁvat* 1156). Those rulers made grants at other ghāts and sacred spots also For example, E. I. vol. IV. pp. 97 ff (21 copperplates of Gāhaḍvālas, of which H in *saṁvat* 1178 speaks of the grant of a village after a bath at the Kapāla-mocana-ghaṭṭa at Banaras where the Ganges flows towards the north, grant L p 114 of *saṁvat* 1197 made on a queen taking a bath at the ghaṭṭa of god Vedeśvara in Avimuktakṣetra ; grant S. mentions god Kṛttivāsa; grant U. is made to the temple of Lolārka by Jayacandra in *saṁvat* 1233), E. I. vol. VIII p. 149 (five copperplate grants of Govindacandra in *saṁvat* 1207 i. e. 1156 A D. after a bath at Koṭitīrtha on Uttarāyaṇa-saṅkrānti). The Kāśī-khaṇḍa promises Varuṇa-loka to those charitable people that build stone ghāts on the sacred rivers¹⁴⁶⁰..