...number of sheep or cattle to the guild of shepherds, who undertook to provide the necessary oil I'M perpetuo. The payment for thus maintaining one sacred...Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II., part III., p. 251. absconds, or gets into prison, fetters (or) chains, we all these aforesaid persons, are bound to supply...

...guild for the supply of oil in perpetuity for a sacred lamp, The inscription runs as follows : ' We, all the following shepherds of this village . . ....received 90 ewes of this temple in order to supply ghl for burning one perpetual lamp. We shall cause the shepherd Eran Sattan to supply daily to one...

...lamp. The inscription runs as follows : ' We, all the following shepherds of this village . . . agree to become security for Eran Sattan, a shepherd of...received 90 ewes of this temple in order to supply ghl for burning one perpetual lamp. We shall cause the shepherd Eran Sattan to supply daily to one...

...shepherds of a village in Southern lndia agreed to become security for one Eran Sattan, a fellowshepherd "who had received 90 ewes of this temple in order to supply ghl (clarified butter) for burning one perpetual lamp". lf he died, absconded, or got into prison,...