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sa khalu bhāgīrathī-patha-pravarttamāna-nānā-vidha-nau-vāṭaka-sampādita-setu-vandha-nihita
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-narapati-prābhr̥t
-pādāta-bhara-namad-a
śvaraḥ para
-maṇḍala-
ṣa-
dau
vi
viditam astu bhavatā
ga-bhoga-kara-hiraṇyādi-pratyāya-sametaḥ
-candrārka-kṣiti-sama-kālam· mātā-pitror ātmanaś ca puṇya
-yaśo
lya-sagotrāya
hari-savrahmacāriṇe
ne
pādhyāya-Arkkadeva-putrāya khoduladevaśarmmaṇe
M bhāvibhir api bhūpatibhiḥ
ś ca kṣetra-karaiḥ
sam
bhavanti
cātra dharmānuśa
Illustrious Vigrahapāladeva
Confirmed. Confirmed.
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
From him was born illustrious king Dharmapāla, who was the birthplace of Lakṣmī
Of him, who gained genuine asceticism like Rāma, there was the brother named Vākpāla, similar
From him was born the son, the victor named Jayapāla, who cleansed the world by his deeds of Upendra
Illustrious Vigrahapāla
He procreated his illustrious son Nārāyaṇa
And his son, the protector of central world named illustrious Rājyapāla was born, with the fame known by the bed of water inside the deep bottom of the ocean and by the abodes of deities which equalled the rooms of kings of the lineage.
From him in Bhāgyadevī, the daughter of Tuṅga, the moon of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa lineage with raised crown, was born the son like the treasury of greatness of previous kings.
Beloved Lakṣmī, who was energy
From him, as if the moon raining ten million of rays was born from the sun at proper time, was born Vigrahapāladeva
From him was born illustrious king Mahīpāladeva
King Nayapāla, abandoning association with vices, putting his feet on heads of kings, forcibly filling all the spaces, having destroyed darkness, having affectionate subjects, the sole abode of affection and rich with virtues, was born from him, as if the sun
Illustrious King Vigrahapāladeva
After drinking clean water in the eastern country abundant with water, then wandering freely in candana forests at the foot of Malaya Mountain, after making coolness in the Desert by dense mist, his cloud-like best war elephants divided the ridge of Snow Mountain.
From the illustrious military camp of victory pitched at Medhanahr̥ṣṭi, 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 massive 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 Jambūdvīpa coming for the service to the supreme lord.
Parameśvara paramabhaṭṭāraka mahārājādhirāja Illustrious Vigrahapāladeva
“It should be known to you. That village as written above, as far as its own border, grass field and pasture, was given by us in the name of the venerable Lord Buddha, after making a royal grant, with flat land, with raised ground, with mango and mahua 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 of all bhāga, bhoga, kara, hiraṇya and so on, 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 parents and myself, to Khoduladevaśarman, belonging to Śāṇḍilya gotra and Śāṇḍilya, Asita and Daivala pravara, co-disciple of Hari, Sāmavedin, learning Kauthumī śākhā, knowing the disciplines of hermeneutics, grammar and epistemology, originating from Matsyāvāsa originating from Kroḍāñca and residing in Chattrāgrāma, the grandson of Padmāvanadeva knowing Vedānta and the son of mahopadhyāya Arkadeva, after bathing in river Gaṅgā according to the rule at the time of lunar eclipse. Hence it should be consented to by you all. This donation should also be protected by future kings after repeatedly approving it out of respect for merit of donation of land and from fear of falling to the great hell by its violation. And the practice of appropriate contribution of bhāga, bhoga, kara, hiraṇya and so on should be made at proper time by residing cultivators after becoming subject to hearing the order
Year 12 month Caitra day 9.
Here are also 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.
The one who gains land and the one who gives land, both of them with meritorious deeds are surely going to heaven.
The one stealing a cow, one piece of gold or a half aṅgula of land comes to hell as long as he invokes deluge.
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.
To all these future kings, this Rāma demands repeatedly. “This common bridge of dharma for kings should be always protected with effort.”
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.
The one who is the storehouse of prospects for good manner, fame, truth and so on increasing due to reconciliation, the bowstring of the bow of the Mother Brahmāṇī, the daughter of Dakṣa
Illustrious Vigrahapāla
This edict was engraved by Śaśideva, the artisan, the son of Mahīdharadeva originating from Ghoṣalīgrāma.
The reading and interpretation of this stanza, which seems to eulogise King Vigrahapāla III mentioned in the folloing stanza, are uncertain due to the damage on the plate and quality of the available photograph. It needs to be verified through the inspection of the plate.
First notified by Henry Thomas Colebrooke