Seal.
[The seal] of the government of a district in the province of Vâraka.
Plate.
Welfare. During the sovereignty of the supreme king of great kings, Srî-Gopacandra, the Emperor, which sovereignty is without an adversary on this earth, and is equal in steadfastness to Yayâti and Ambariṣa—in the time of the reigning of the Uparika Nâgadeva, chief warden of the gate, and the minister entrusted with the principal business of regulating trade in New Avakâsikâ, who (Nâgadeva) gained his dignity [through the favour of that Gopacandra]—while he is administering affairs, Vatsapâla-svâmin, who is appointed over trade in this district in the province of Vâruka, becomingly [apprised] both the district government, wherein the oldest kâyastha Nayasena is the chief, and also the leading men …………………… [foremost among whom are] the leading men Viṣayakuṇḍa(?) …………………………………………… Ghoṣacandra, Anâcâra, Râjya- …………………………………………. and also the principal [traders(?)] ………………………………………….. with [respectful?] mind, thus—“[I would wish] through your honour’s favour to buy at the proper price about so much cultivated land as can be sown with a kulya of seed from …………….. Mahâ-koṭṭika (?), Nâma- ………………… and, in order to augment the merit of my mother and father and mine own merit, to bestow it on the virtuous Bhaṭṭa Gomidatta-svâmin, who is of the lineage of Kaṇva (?), is a Vâjasaneya and is a Lauhitya: therefore let your honours, who are of the family of Bharadvâja deign to take the price from me and to mark off a portion (?) [of about a kuyla-sowing area of cultivated land”(?)].
Wherefore we [giving heed to this request] have—because the rule established regardering practical affairs in the eastern region is being now acknowledged here, namely, that cultivated lands are sold at the rate of the sum of four dînâras for the area that can be sown wth kuyla of seed —determined the land by the record-keeper [Na]yabhûti’s determination in three places (?) and have constituted as referees (or arbitrators), the government officials together with the government (administrator) of this district, and have served it off according to the standard measure of eight reeds in breadth and nine reeds in length by the hand of trusty and upright Sivacandra and have sold about one kuyla-sowing area of cultivated land to Vatsapâla-svâmin. He has bought it and bestowed it on Bhaṭṭa Gomidatta-svâmin with the right of succession to son and grandson.
And the boundary.indications are here stated. On the east, the boundary of the royal grant to brahmans in Dhruvilâtî village; on the south, Karanka; on the west, the boundary of Sîlakuṇḍa village; on the north, the boundary of Karanka.
Whoever confiscates land that has been granted away by himself or granted away by another, he becoming a worm in a dog’s ordure, rots along with his ancestors.