Local Government in Ancient India c9.118

c9.118

In the Indor copper-plate inscription of Skandagupta (ibid., p. 71) a gift is recorded of a Brāhmaṇa who endowed a temple of the sun and transferred the temple-properties to a guild of local oil-men of the town of Indrapura on two conditions, viz. (1) that the guild should continue in complete internal concord and (2) that the guild should make a permanent arrangement to supply the temple daily with 'two *palas* of oil'. If these two conditions were observed, even the withdrawal of the donees from that place would not deprive them of the possession of those properties.