Copper Plate at Melukoṭe
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idakke dharmma-sākṣigaḷu Āditya-candrāv anilo ’nalaś ca dyaur bhūmir āpo hṛdayaṁ yamaś ca | ahaś ca rātriś ca ubhe ca sandhye dharmasya jānāti narasya vṛttaṁ ∥ ekaiva bhaginī loke sarveṣām eva bhūbhujāṁ | na bhojyā na kara-grāhyā vipra-dattā vasundharā ∥ sva-dattād dviguṇaṁ puṇyaṁ para-dattānupālanaṁ| para-dattāpahāreṇa sva-dattaṁ niṣphalaṁ bhaveT∥ Ādityā vasavo rudrāḥ brahmā somo hutāśanaḥ| nārāyaṇaś ca bhagavān abhinandanti bhūmipaṁ∥ Indraḥ pṛicchati caṇḍālīṁ kiṁ idaṁ pacyate tvayā | śva-māṁsaṁ surayā siktaṁ kapālena citāgninā∥ deva-brāhmaṇa-vittāni balād apaharanti cet| teṣāṁ pāda-rajo-bhītyā carmaṇā pihitaṁ mayā∥ na viṣaṁ viṣam ity āhuḥ brahma-svaṁ viṣam ucyate | viṣam ekākinaṁ hanti brahma-svaṁ putra-pautrakaṁ ∥ dāna-pālanayor madhye dānāc chreyo’nupālanaṁ | dānāt svargam avāpnoti pālanād acyutaṁ padaṁ ∥ sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā yo hareta vasundharāṁ | ṣaṣṭi-varuṣa-sahasrāṇi viṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate krimiḥ ∥ balād dattāṁ balād bhuktāṁ bālād yānvāpi lekhitān| pūrvāparakṛitān āryā akṛitān manur abravīt∥ kalau kārtayugaṁ dharmmaṁ yo naraḥ karttum ichati| svāmi-drohīti taṁ matvā taṁ naraṁ bādhate kaliḥ∥ rākṣasāḥ kalim āśritya jāyante brahma-yoniṣu| brāhmaṇān eva bādhante tatrāpi śrotriyān kṛiśān∥
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.
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idakke dharmma-sākṣigaḷu
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Commentary
Mysore District