Samgamner Copper-Plate inscription of the Yadava Bhillama II, the śaka year 922 (=AD 1000) EpiDoc Encoding Amandine Wattelier-Bricout intellectual authorship of edition Amandine Wattelier-Bricout European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Aubervilliers DHARMA_INSVaria90005.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata The previous identifier of this file was INSEI2_15. This set records the grant of lands by the king Bhillama II (Yādava dynasty) to twenty-one Brahmins. Gift made at the occasion of a solar eclipse at the holy bathing-place of the confluence of the Aruṇa (and Godāvarī) at Nāsik.

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na tathā saphalā vidyā na tathā saphalaṁ dhanam yathā tu munayaḥ prāhur dānam ekaṁ kalau yuge Agner apatyaṁ prathamaṁ suvarṇaṁ bhūr vvaiṣṇavī sūrya-sutāś ca gāvaḥ lokatrayas tena bhavet dattaṁ yaḥ kāñcanaṁ gāṁ ca mahīṁ ca dadyāt Āsphoṭayanti pitaraḥ pravalganti pitāmahāḥ bhūmido 'smat-kule jātaḥ sa nas trātā bhaviṣyati bhūmi-dānaṁ su-pātreṣu su-tīrtheṣu su-parvasu Agādhāpāra-saṁsāra -sāgarottāraṇaṁ bhaveT dhavalānyātapatrāṇi dantinaś ca bhadoddhatāḥ bhūmi-dānasya puṣpāṇi phalaṁ svargaḥ purandara

Uktaṁ ca munibhiḥ

yānīha dattāni purā narendrair dānāni dharmmārtha-yaśas-karāṇi nirmālya-vānta-pratimāni tāni ko nāma sādhuḥ punar ādadīta bahubhir vasudhā bhuktā rājabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phalam