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sa khalu bhāgīrathī-patha-pravarttamāna-nānā-vidha-nau-vāṭaka-sa
ṇī-vibhramān niratiśaya-ghana-ghanāghana-ghaṭā-śyāmāyamāna-vāsara-lakṣmī-samāravdha-santata-jalada-samaya-sa
ndehāT
g-antarālāT
sita-śrīmaj-jaya-skandhāvārāT paramasaugata-parameśvara-paramabhaṭṭāraka-mahārājādhirāja-śrī-dharmapāla-deva
-pādānudhyātaḥ paramasaugataḥ parameśvara-paramabhaṭṭārako mahārājādhirājaḥ śrīmān devapāla-devaḥ kuśalī
śrī-nagara-bhuktau
n
manta
parādhika
khaṇḍarakṣa
ka
-sevakādīn
n
viditam a
stu bhavatāṁ* yathoparilikhita-meṣikāgrāmaḥ svasī
mā-tr̥ṇa-yūti-gocara-paryantaḥ sa-talaḥ soddeśaḥ sāmra-madhūkaḥ sa-jala-sthalaḥ sa-matsyaḥ sa-tr̥ṇaḥ soparikaraḥ sa-daśā
parādhaḥ sa-cauroddharaṇaḥ parihr̥ta-sarvva-pīḍaḥ
to bhūmi-cchidra-nyāyenācandr
ṇya-yaśobhivr̥ddhaye vedā
pada-vākya-pramāṇa-vidyā-pāraṁgatāya
śāsanī-kr̥tya pratipāditaḥ
dam anumodya pā
yaḥ k
tathā ca dharmānuśā
Of illustrious Devapāladeva.
Success! Welfare!
May the accomplishment of that venerable one, the one who accomplished the aim, who has mind firmly set on the benefit of others, who practices the good way, make the excellent accomplishment among people! After winning the roads to the accomplishment of true essence consisting of three substances by the rise of very ferocious valour, that Sugata
There was Gopāla
After conquering the earth limited by the ocean, because the enclosing fence was loosened by him,
When his innumerable armies roam around, the sky, which was covered by dust from the earth, became fit for the use by feet of birds for a long time.
By illustrious Dharmapāla,
The Earth, being tormented by roaming elephants belonging to him, which were like moving mountains, resorted to a refuge of untroubled sky in the form of dust.
After raising up pleasure among his servants, who enjoyed water in a basin at the Ocean accompanied by the Gaṅgā
Among the kings, who were summoned at the time of the conclusion of the conquest of quarters, who came to each of their own land after removing all their exhaustion by each of the highest favours, and who affectionately cherished his right act, the heart with longing
By this householder, the king, was held the hand of Raṇṇādevī, the daughter of illustrious Parabala, the mark of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas.
“Is she Lakṣmī holding body in our sight, just the Earth embodied, the embodied fame of the king, or the goddess of house?” Causing people to have such doubt, she, whose conduct was clean, made the sacred interior
This praiseworthy wife devoted to her husband gave birth to the son of right conduct, illustrious Devapāladeva, as if an oyster of sea
He, spotless in mind, self-controlled in word and standing in purity in terms of bodily action, peacefully obtained the kingship of his father, as if a Bodhisattva
His elephants, roaming to this Vindhya forest during the course of conquest, saw again
That path of liberality, which had been earlier created by Bali in the Kr̥ta Age, with which the one belonging to Bhr̥gu clan
He enjoyed the earth, devoid of enemies, as far as the place renowned for the arrival of the Gaṅgā, as far as the bridge having fame of the enemy of the Ten-headed
From the illustrious military camp of victory pitched at illustrious Mudgagiri, where the group of mountain peaks laid by the bridge produced by various kinds of large ships going around the path of river Bhāgīrathī are rolling, where the doubt of the time of lasting cloud occurred because of daylight darkened by the assembly of unsurpassed dark rutting elephants, where the intermediate space of directions is made grey by dust dug up by the hard hooves of innumerable horse troops gifted by many northern kings and where the earth bows to the weight of innumerable foot soldiers of all the kings of Jambudvīpa coming for the service to the supreme lord. Parameśvara paramabhaṭṭāraka mahārājādhirāja illustrious Devapāla, healthy, the devout worshipper of Sugata, who was accepted by his majesty parameśvara paramabhaṭṭāraka mahārājādhirāja illustrious Dharmapāladeva, the devout worshipper of Sugata, orders all the approached beginning with rāṇaka, rājaputra, amātya, mahākārttākr̥tika, mahādaṇḍanāyaka, mahāpratīhāra, mahāsāmanta, mahādauḥsādhasādhanika, mahākumārāmātya, pramātr̥, sarabhaṅga, rājasthānīya, uparika, dāśāparādhika, cauroddharaṇika, dāṇḍika, dāṇḍapāśika, śaulkika, gaulmika, kṣatrapa, prāntapāla, koṭṭapāla, khaṇḍarakṣa, their āyuktas and viniyuktakas, hastyaśvoṣṭrabalavyāpr̥taka, kiśoravaḍavāgomahiṣyajāvikādhyakṣa, dūta, praiṣaṇika, gamāgamika, abhitvaramāṇa, viṣayapati, tarapati, tarika, Gauḍa, Mālava, Khaśa, Hūṇa, Kulika, Karṇāta, Lāṭa, cāṭa, bhaṭa and sevaka, and the other unnamed dependants on the own lotus-like feet, and the residents accompanied by brāhmaṇas, led by mahattaras and kuṭumbins reaching to medas, andhrakas and caṇḍālas, at Meṣikāgrāma accompanied by the uninterrupted flat land belonging to itself, belonging to Krimilā viṣaya in illustrious Nagara bhukti
“It should be known to you. Meśikāgrāma as written above, as far as its own border, grass field and pasture, was given by me after making royal grant, with flat land, with raised ground, with mango and mahua trees, with watering place, with fish, with grass, with additional tax, with fine of ten offences, with the right to catch thieves, exempted from all the burdens, without entry of cāṭas and bhaṭas, without anything taken away, accompanied by all the contributions due to the royal family, by the rule of land reclamation, as long as the moon, the sun and the earth exist, excluding gifts to brāhmaṇas and deities given and enjoyed previously and being enjoyed
Year 33 month Mārga day 21.
And then there are verses instructing dharma
To all these future kings, this Rāma demands repeatedly. “This common bridge of dharma for kings should be always protected with effort.”
The earth was given by many kings beginning with Sagara. To the one to whom the land belongs, belongs then the merit.
Either given by himself or given by the others, the one who stole land, he would be boiled with his ancestors after becoming an insect in excreta.
After thus considering wealth and human life fragile as a drop of water on lotus petal, also after knowing all that is said, the meritorious deeds of others should not be destroyed by human beings.
In the excellent injunction, the king, knowing merit, made his own son, illustrious Rājyapāla, who shared purity of both lineages, who acquired merit of himself, whose deed was similar to himself, and whose position as a crown-prince was firm, the messenger here.
First edited and published by Franz Kielhorn