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sa kha
lu bhāgīrathī-patha-pravarttamāna-nānā-vidha-nau-vāṭaka-sam
t·
Udīcīnāneka-narapati-prābhr̥tī-kr̥tāpr
lāt
vāsita-śrīmaj-jaya-skandhāvārāt·
paramasaugato mahārājādhirāja-śrī-vigrahapāla-deva-pādānudhyātaḥ para
meśvaraḥ paramabhaṭṭārako mahārājādhirājaḥ śrīman-mahīpāla-devaḥ kuśalī
rṣa-viṣaye
kā-grāme
ntapāla
kta-viniyuktaka
pr̥taka
kādhyakṣa
Abhitvaramāṇa
cāṭa
mottama-kuṭumvi-puroga-medāndhra-caṇḍāla-paryantān·
vidita
m astu bhavatāṁ
dhūkaḥ
-bhaṭa-praveśaḥ
yena
kam uddiśya
s
ya
m·
dānam idam anumodyānupālanīyam·
samucita-bhāga-bhoga-kara-hiraṇyādi-pratyāyopanayaḥ kārya Iti
samvat·
bhavanti cātra
dharmmānuśaṁsinaḥ ślokāḥ
Of illustrious Mahīpāladeva
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
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 him was born illustrious king Mahīpāladeva
From the illustrious military camp of victory pitched at Vilāsapura, 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 Jambudvīpa coming for the service to the supreme lord.
Parameśvara paramabhaṭṭāraka mahārājādhirāja Illustrious Mahīpāladeva
“It should be known to you. This 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, 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 bhaṭṭaputra Kr̥ṣṇādityaśarman, belonging to Parāśara gotra, Śakti, Vasiṣṭha and Parāśara pravara, co-disciple of the Yajurveda, learning Vājasa
Year 9 month Phālguna day 12.
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 by you.”
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 this edict given to the best of twice-born, bhaṭṭa illustrious Vāmana, the mantrin, was made a messenger by Mahīpāladeva
This edict was engraved by illustrious Mahīdhara, the artisan, the son of Vikramāditya originating from Ghoṣalīgrāma.
First edited by F. Kielhorn