Stone Inscription #2 of the time of Raṭṭa Prince Kārtavīrya IV: A.D. 1204 EpiDoc Encoding Amandine Wattelier-Bricout intellectual authorship of edition Amandine Wattelier-Bricout DHARMA Aubervilliers DHARMA_INSEI13_3b

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.. sāmānyo 'yaṁ dharmma-setur nr̥pāṇāṁ kāle kāle pālanīyo bhavadbhiḥ sarvvān etān bhāvinaḥ pārtthivendrān bhūyo bhūyo yācate rāmacaṁdraḥ. sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ yo hareta vasundharāṁ ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi viṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate kr̥miḥ. .

This general principle of pious foundations of kings is to be maintained by you age after age : again and again Rāmacandra makes this entreaty to all these future soveriegns. He who should appropriate land, whether granted by himself or granted by others, is born as a worm in dung for sixty thousand years.

Inscription engraved on a massive stone tablet; language : kanarese except the prelude (verse 1) and two standing verses on lines 59-61; content: closely connected to INSEI13_03a, i.e. it also records land donations to the Jain temple named Raṭṭa-Jinālaya at Beḷgaum by Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Kārtavīrya IV, one of the Raṭṭa princes of Saundatti ; Date : the same than EI13_03a Saturday, 25 december, A.D. 1204

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