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THE SOLANKI PERIOD
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V. 1343 expired: Suppressed between sunrise on Sunday, 20 October, A.C. 1286 and sunrise on the next day.
The given tithi is found to be suppressed both according to mean sunrise and local sunrise in the expired year by the Surya Siddhanta. But on calculating according to the Brahma Siddhanta, the given tithi commenced about 27 m. 17 se, before sunrise on Sunday, and hence well applied to the given week-day.
Before we analyse the results tabulated above, it must be noted how far the dates collected from the different sources can be taken as pertaining to Gujarat. Among the substances bearing inscriptions, small images of stone and metal images, being handy, may have been shifted in course of time. Hence a few of them may have been brought into Gujarat from some other regions, though they are all preserved in Gujarat at present. But the heavy stone images and stone slabs bearing inscriptions are generally situated at their original sites. So their present find spots generally also represent their original situation in different parts of Gujarat. Many of the stone inscriptions contain references to the places concerned in their contents and confirmed their present location. Copper-plates are not infrequently discovered at their original sites. Even when some of them are shifted from other places, the places and territories mentioned in them clearly indicate the region to which they originally belonged.
The Prasastis in Manuscripts and published works, which contain dates given here, make specific mention of the places where they were composed or copied.
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