# Copper Plate at Melukoṭe

Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Author of digital edition: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Contributor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Identifier: DHARMA_INSVaria90003

Repository: Varia Epigraphy (varia-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSVaria90003.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

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## Edition

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idakke dharmma-sākṣigaḷu

1. Upajāti

Āditya-candrāv anilo ’nalaś ca
dyaur bhūmir āpo hṛdayaṁ yamaś ca |
ahaś ca rātriś ca ubhe ca sandhye
dharmasya jānāti narasya vṛttaṁ ∥

2. Anuṣṭubh

ekaiva bhaginī loke
sarveṣām eva bhūbhujāṁ |
na bhojyā na kara-grāhyā
vipra-dattā vasundharā ∥

3. Anuṣṭubh

sva-dattād dviguṇaṁ puṇyaṁ
para-dattānupālanaṁ|
para-dattāpahāreṇa
sva-dattaṁ niṣphalaṁ bhaveT∥

4. Anuṣṭubh

Ādityā vasavo rudrāḥ
brahmā somo hutāśanaḥ|
nārāyaṇaś ca bhagavān
abhinandanti bhūmipaṁ∥

5. Anuṣṭubh

Indraḥ pṛicchati caṇḍālīṁ
kiṁ idaṁ pacyate tvayā |
śva-māṁsaṁ surayā siktaṁ
kapālena citāgninā∥

6. Anuṣṭubh

deva-brāhmaṇa-vittāni
balād apaharanti cet|
teṣāṁ pāda-rajo-bhītyā
carmaṇā pihitaṁ mayā∥

7. Anuṣṭubh

na viṣaṁ viṣam ity āhuḥ
brahma-svaṁ viṣam ucyate |
viṣam ekākinaṁ hanti
brahma-svaṁ putra-pautrakaṁ ∥

8. Anuṣṭubh

dāna-pālanayor madhye
dānāc chreyo’nupālanaṁ |
dānāt svargam avāpnoti
pālanād acyutaṁ padaṁ ∥

9. Anuṣṭubh

sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā
yo hareta vasundharāṁ |
ṣaṣṭi-varuṣa-sahasrāṇi
viṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate krimiḥ ∥

10. Anuṣṭubh

balād dattāṁ balād bhuktāṁ
bālād yānvāpi lekhitān|
pūrvāparakṛitān āryā
akṛitān manur abravīt∥

11. Anuṣṭubh

kalau kārtayugaṁ dharmmaṁ
yo naraḥ karttum ichati|
svāmi-drohīti taṁ matvā
taṁ naraṁ bādhate kaliḥ∥

12. Anuṣṭubh

rākṣasāḥ kalim āśritya
jāyante brahma-yoniṣu|
brāhmaṇān eva bādhante
tatrāpi śrotriyān kṛiśān∥

## Commentary

Mysore District

## Bibliography

### Primary

[R] Rice, Benjamin Lewis. 1894. Inscriptions in the Mysore district
(part I). Epigraphia Carnatica 3. Bangalore: Mysore Government Press.
Page 84.

### Secondary

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1965. “Stanzas on Bhūmi-dāna quoted in
Raja-śāsanas, Appendix II.” In: Indian epigraphy. Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidass, pp. 170–201. Appendix II, note 5, page 175.