Indian Antiquary Vol 18

SR No.: 032510
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 454
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[NOVEMBER, 1889.
for the northern year 1229 expired, or the southern current year, - Wednesday, 29th March, A.D. 1172;
for the southern year 1229 expired, -Tuesday, 17th April, A.D. 1173.
In none of the three years did the third tithi end on a Monday; but since in the southern expired year 1229 it covered at least part of a Monday, we must for this particular year find the exact beginning and end of the given tithi, and must inquire whether there is anything in the nature of the festive days or the religious ceremonies with which the date is connected, that would allow or oblige us to combine the third tithi with the Monday on which it commenced.
By Professor Jacobi's Tables the third tithi with which we are concerned, commenced 1 h. 40 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain) of Monday, 16th April, A.D. 1173, and it ended 2 h. 42 m. after mean sunrise of Tuesday, 17th April; by Professor Keru Lakshman's Tables it commenced 4 gh. 13 p. after mean sunrise (for Bombay) of the Monday, and ended 7 gh. 15 p. after mean sunrise of the Tuesday; and, allowing for any possible differences of time, we may say that the tithi certainly had begun at Udaypur before the 8th ghatiká of the Monday and had ended before the 11th ghatiká of the Tuesday. Now in regard to a Yujádi-éraddha in the light half of a month, the rule laid down in the Purushárthachintamani and quoted with approval by the author of the Dharmasindhu is that, when a tithi covers part of two days in such a manner that it ends before the 13th ghatiká after mean sunrise of the second day, while it occupies the 13th, 14th, and 15th ghatikás after mean sunrise or part of those ghatikás of the first day, the śrâddha-ceremonies must invariably be performed on the first day.38 This rule is strictly applicable in the present instance; and, in accordance with it, the ceremonies referred to in the inscription, and everything connected with them, had necessarily to be performed on the Monday,37 and could not possibly have been deferred to the Tuesday; and the Monday is rightly coupled with the third as a running tithi. Accordingly, Monday, the 16th April, A.D. 1173, is the true equivalent of the date of our inscription; and the result shows that the year 1229 of the date is the southern expired Vikrama year, exactly as was the case with the year in the date of the preceding inscription B.
The third trustworthy date which we have thus found for the reign of Ajayapaladeva, is, then, Monday, 16th April, A.D. 1173, civilly the second of the bright half of Vaisakha of the southern expired year 1229, or the southern ourrent year 1230; and, if there be any truth in the traditional statement, according to which he began to rule on Pausha-sudi 12 and reigned for three years, Ajayapala's accession should have fallen on the 28th December, A.D. 1172, Pausha-sudi 12 of Vikrama 1229 expired, or 1230 current.38
As regards the illustrious Lanapasaka, who made the grant, it is clear that his name is a corrupted form of Lonapasaya, the regular Prâkrit equivalent of the Sanskrit Lavanaprasáda. Another form of the same name is Lúnapasája, which occurs in line 13 of the copper-plate grant of the Vikrama year 1317, published ante, Vol. VI. p. 210. There Lûnapasâjadêva is described as Ránaka, and as the grand-father of the person who made the donations recorded in that inscription; and I do not consider it impossible that he may be identical with the Lûnapa
36 The main rule is that, in the light half of the month, the Yugadi-áraddha (or akshayatrittyd-śraddha) should be performed during the 13th, 14th and 15th ghatikas of the day. And accordingly, in the inscription B. above, where the tithi ends 21 h. 35 m. after sunrise of the second day, it is correctly coupled with the second day. And the same is the case in a date, quoted ante, Vol. XII. p. 209 (.. Saka-samvat 1078... Vaisakha-suddha-akshayatritiyayam yugadi-parvvani Bhaumadinê..., Tuesday, 24th April, A.D. 1156), where the tithi ends 13 h. 58 m. after sunrise of the second day (the Tuesday). In the dark half, the Yugadi-áraddha should be performed during the 16th, 17th and 18th ghatikos of the day. An example for this is furnished by the date, quoted ante, Vol. XII. p. 212 (... Saka-varsham 1047. Bhadrapada ba 13 Sukravåra mahatithi-yugadiy-amdu, Friday, 28th August, A.D. 1125), where the tithi ends 16h. 9 m. after sunrise of the second day (the Friday).
37 As ceremonies performed on the akshaya-tritty are said to be particularly meritorious when the akshayatritiya is joined with the nakshatra Rohini and with a Wednesday, I may add here that on the above Monday the nakshatra joas Rohint up to about 15 h. after sunrise,
58 Professor Bühler informs me that, according to the Vicharairant, Kumarapala, the predecessor of Ajayapala, died Vikrama-samvat 1229, Pausha-sudi 12; according to all other Prabandhas, Vikrama-samvat 1230, Pausha-sudi 12. Mr. Kathavate, Kirtikaumudi, Introduction p. xiii., quotes 1232, dvadasi Phalguna-sudi,' which must be wrong for the accession of Ajayapila, and may rather be the traditional date of his death. Dharmasågara's Pravachanapariksho, in Professor Bhandarkar's Report for 1883-84, p. 457, has:-tataḥ 1230. Ajayapala-rajyam varsha 3.'