Local Government in Ancient India c9.s2.7

c9.s2.7

both sacred and secular. In the northern inscriptions we have also two instances of the endowments being applied for the robes, pocket-money, and medicines of the monks, and of another for a perpetual sacred lamp. In the southern inscriptions we have several instances of endowments being offered for the support of Brāhmaṇas in the place of the Buddhist monks of the northern, while, as regards sacred purposes, we have many varieties recorded, besides provision of the permanent lamp, viz., food for gods, anointing, processions on festival days, camphor lamps, beat of drum at festivals, scents for the bathing-water of the gods, and the like. We