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ka-sampādita-setu-vandha-nihita-śaila-śikhara-śreṇi-vibhramāt·
māna-vāsara-lakṣmī-samāravdha-santata-jalada-samay
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lānanta-pādāta-bhara-namad-avaneḥ
ra-paramabhaṭṭāraka-mahārājādhirāja-śrī-śūrapāla-deva-pādānudhyātaḥ paramasaugataḥ parameśvaraḥ parama
bhaṭṭārako mahārājādhirājaḥ śrīmān
mvaddha-suvarṇṇakārikā-daṇḍāt·
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va-khaṣa-hūṇa-kulika
prativāsinaś ca vrāhmaṇottarāN
yathārhaṁ mānayati vodhayati samādiśati
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bhūmi-cchidra-nyāyenā-candrārka-kṣiti-sama-kāla yāvat
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ta-samudroccāli-vāstavya-bhaṭṭa-dinakara-pautrāya
ṭṭaputra-śrī-līlākarāya śāsanī-kr̥tya dattaḥ yato bhavadbhiḥ sarvvair eva dānam idam anumantavyaM bhāvibhir api bhū-pati
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jñā-śravaṇa-vidheyī-bhūya sarvva-pratyāyopanayaḥ kārya Iti
samvaT 4 phālguna-dine 4
tathātra dharmmānuśāsana-ślokāḥ
Illustrious Gopāladeva
Success! Welfare!
The one with mind delighted by the jewel of compassion, who is united with beloved goddess Benevolence, whose dirt of ignorance is cleansed by pure water of the stream of knowledge of perfect enlightenment, who, after conquering the powerful cause of existence producing desire, acquired eternal tranquillity, may he, the illustrious Lord of the World
There was illustrious king Dharmapāla, who was the birthplace of Lakṣmī
By these villages beginning with Kuśasthala
He obtained the son illustrious Devapāla, the master of wealth
From him, as if from the bull-marked one
She, called Māṇikyadevī, the daughter’s daughter of the lord of Tramaṇa and the daughter of king Āmantaka, was the queen of him who loved virtues. In her was born to him, the father on the earth, the son Gopāladeva
His splendour born only from the flood of water of his consecration spread in every direction like
His fame, which is
From the illustrious military camp of victory pitched at Mahāsāla, 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 Gopāladeva
“It should be known to you. The both portions as written above, as far as their own borders, grasslands and pastures, were given after making a royal edict, with flat land, with raised ground, with additional tax, with mango and jackfruit trees, with watering place, with ditch and saline land, 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 contribution belonging to the royal family, by the rule of land reclamation, as long as the moon, the sun and the earth exist, for the increase of merit and fame of mother and father and myself, to bhaṭṭaputra illustrious Līlākara, the śāntivārika attached to the śāntigr̥ha, of Paippalāda School of Atharvaveda with its limbs, belonging to Kauṭhari gotra, Bhārgava, Cyāvana, Āpnuvāna, Aurva and Jāmadagni pravara of five r̥ṣis, the grandson of bhaṭṭa Dinakara originating from Campā and residing in Samudroccāli and the son of bhaṭṭa Yaśaskara. Hence this donation should be consented to by you all. It should also be protected by future kings after approving it out of respect for merit of donation of land and from fear of falling to the great hell in case of its violation. And the practice of all the contributions should be made by residing cultivators after becoming subject to hearing the order
Year 4 month Phālguna day 4.
And here are verses instructing dharma
The earth was given by many kings beginning with Sagara. To the one to whom the land belongs, belongs then the merit.
For sixty thousand years, a giver of land rejoices in heaven. The one who denies it and the one who agrees with him live in hell for the same period.
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.
First notified by Gouriswar Bhattacharya