Personal grant to the high-priest, Damodarji Maharaj. 6000 Swasti Sri, from the abode at Udaipur, Maharana Sri Bhim Singhji, commanding [556]. To all the chieftains, landholders, managers of the crown and _deorhi_[4.20a.26] lands, to all Patels, etc., etc., etc. As an offering to the Sri Gosainji two rupees have been granted in every village throughout Mewar, one in each harvest—let no opposition be made thereto. If of my kin or issue, none will revoke this—the _an_ (oath of allegiance) be upon his head. By command, through Parihara Mayaram, Samvat 1860, Jeth sudi 5th Mangalwar; A.D. 1804. At one side of the patent, in the Rana’s own hand, “An offering to Sri Girdhariji[4.20a.27] Maharaj—If of my issue none will disobey—who dares, may the Almighty punish!” No. XII Maharana Bhim Singh, commanding. To the Mandir (_minster_) of Sri Murali Manohar (_flute delighting_), situated on the dam of the lake at Mandalgarh, the following grant has been made, with all the dues, income, and privileges, viz.: 1. The hamlet called Kotwalkhera, with all thereto appertaining. 2. Three rupees’ worth of saffron monthly from the transit duty chabutra.[4.20a.28] 3. From the police-office of Mandalgarh: Three tunics (_baga_) for the idol on each festival, viz. Ashtami, Jaljatra, and Vasant Panchami.[4.20a.29] Five rupees’ worth of oil[4.20a.30] on the Jaljatra, and two and a half in the full moon of Karttik [Oct.-Nov.]. 4. Both gardens under the dam of the lake, with all the fruits and flowers thereof. 5. The _Inch_[4.20a.31] on all the vegetables appertaining to the prince. 6. _Kunchi_ and _dalali_, or the handful at harvest, and all brokerage. 7. The income arising from the sale of the estates is to be applied to the repairs of the temple and dam. Margsir [Nov.-Dec.] Sudi 1, Samvat 1866; A.D. 1810 [557]. ----- Footnote a4.20.1: The great Rathor queen. There were two of this tribe; she was the queen-mother. Footnote a4.20.2: [The tract in the centre of the State, including Udaipur city.] Footnote a4.20.3: An endearing epithet, applied to children, from _larla_, beloved. Footnote a4.20.4: It is customary to call these grants to religious orders ‘grants of land,’ although they entitle only the rents thereof; for there is no seizin of the land itself, as numerous inscriptions testify, and which, as well as the present, prove the proprietary right to be in the cultivator only. The _tamba-pattra_,[a4.20.4.A] or copper-plate patent (by which such grants are probably designated) of Yasodharman,[a4.20.4.B] the Pramara prince of Ujjain, seven hundred years ago, is good evidence that the rents only are granted; he commands the crown tenants of the two villages assigned to the temple “to pay all dues as they arise—money-rent—first share of produce,” not a word of seizing of the soil. See _Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society_, vol. i. p. 223.