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of Paushavdya of the Samvat year 1235 of VIIKAMADLTT*. he after bathing in the sacred waters of the holy Narmada’, near the temple of the four-faced MARXANDKSVAR, and after duly robing himself in white gormente and making oblations of. water to the gods and to his progenitors, and after offering due worship to the lord and ruler of ill animate and in.nrni’e objects, and after sacrificing to the sacred fire with the holy wood, kusha grass, sesamum seed, rice, &c. as prescribed, walking thrice round the sacred cow, and performing other purificatory ceremonies, has given away in gift 1000 cows. Seeing moreover that there is no stability in the affairs of this world, that they are more inconsistent than the water-drop trembling on the lotus leaf, and that youth and wealth are of uncertain duration, as it has been well observed, “the kingdoms of this world are as inconstant as the clouds agitated by the changeful winds, and all sensual pleasures last but for the instant of enjoyment; the life of man is like the rain drop depending from the point of a tremulous blade of grass; piety alone will befriend a man in the life to come,”—I, duly reflecting on these matters, have, with a view of adding to the merits and glory of my mother and father and of myself; given to the learned brahman DA8A1IATHA, son of the learned SINDHU of the Kdtydywsa gears and of three Pravars, two shares of the registered rents of the village of Sawifrd. To the learned brahnian MALVINU the son of the learned DELU of the Porésara gotra, and of three Pravars. I moreover gave on the full moon of Vaiskba of the above mentioned Sasevat year 1235, the remaining share of the village, adding to the shares of both customary dues from the bazár below the Fort of Gunapesra; the village of Suwdrd thus divided into three shares and calculated at 40 manis of seed grain as measured by the kura of the Nilagiri Maadala, together with all the trees growing therein and a right to all trove treasure that may be found, with its clear defined boundary, and with all the Baolee,, wells, and tanks in the same, has by this deed been duly granted with ablutions of water. Therefore let all the inhabitants of this village, the patêl and others as also the cultivators, submitting themselves to the orders of these two pandits, pay unto them the whole produce of every due, rent, revenue and money payment. Let this my religious grant be duly observed and maintained by all my descendants and also by all other future princes who may inherit the land, reflecting that the merits of the gift will thus be duly shared in by them whilst following this course. 1. The earth has been enjoyed in succession by many kings, by rLja