Epigraphia Indica Vol 13

SR No.: 032567
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow, F W Thomas
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1915
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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INSCRIPTIONS AT NARENDRA : B, OP A.D. 1126.
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began at about 22 h. 39 m. on the Sunday, and cannot by any meaue be carried back to any time recognizable as proper for celebrating the equinox; much less to the time when the san. krānti actually occurred. The only possible excuse for citing the new-moon tithi is to be found in the fact that the fourteenth tithi was what is known as an expunged tithi, since it began at about 1 h. 8 m. on the Sunday and ended at about 22 h. 39 m. on the same day. But, even so, the fourteenth tithi existed, though it did not give its pamber to a day; and either the thirteenth or the fourteenth tithi must have been used, and should have been cited, in connec. tion with the celebration of the sankranti.
u Third dato: line 39. The only detail given here is the Uttar yana-samkrānti or winter solstice, when the sun enters the sign Makara (Capricornus) and bugins his course towards the north. But the date evidently belongs to the Visvāvasu samvatsara, which is mentioned in the remaining two dates as well as in the preceding one. And so its equivalent will be 24 December, A.D. 1125, when the san entered Makara at 16 h. 35 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain).
“Fourth date: line 40. The details given here are : the cyclic year Viśvāvasu : the fullmoon of Māgha : an eclipse of the moon: the Saks year and the weekday are not stated. This, of course, is the same Vistāvasu samvatsara, Saka 1047 expired, A.D. 1125-26. And the given tithi, the full-moon of Māgha, answers to 10 January, A.D. 1126, on which day there was an eclipse of the moon, visible in India. The eclipse, which was nearly a half one, began at Dhārwār at 22 h. 55 m, after mean sunrise on the Sunday: that is, at 4.55 A.m. during the night between the Sunday and the Monday. The moment of full-moon, with which the tithi ended and the greatest phase of the eclipse occurred, was at 6 minutes (local time) after mean Bunrisc, i.e. at 6.6 A.m. on the Monday : but the local true sunrise was at closely about 6.25 A.M., some twenty minutes after the moment of full-moon; and so the tithi and the eclipse belong to the Sunday.
"Fifth date : line 49. The details here are precisely those of the fourth date : namely, the cyclic year Viśvāvası (the Saka year not being stated); the fall-moon of Māgha (the weekday not being stated); an eclipse of the moon. As we have seen, the equivalent is 10 January, A.D. 1126."
A considerable number of places are mentioned. Apart from Kundür itself (passim), the Konkan (1. 9), Hanumgal, now Hangal (11. 9, 10), Vēļugrame, the modern Belgaum (1. 10). and Daravāda, now Dhārwar (1. 51), there are several that may be identified. Uņukal (1.9) is Uņkal, on the high road from Dhārwār to Hubli, about thirteen miles south-east from Narondra. Sabbi, which is associated with it as giving a joint name to & group of thirty villages, seems to bave been a contigaous village which has become absorbed into Uņkal. Kádaravalli (1. 10) is Kädarõļi in the Sampgaum tālu a of the Belgaum District, in long. 74° 47', lat. 15° 42', twenty miles towards the north-west from Narendra ; from this place itself we have an inscription of A.D. 1075 - in another record the name is given as Kädalavalli, with l instead of r in the third syllable.5 Utsugrame, which is associated with it in the same way as Sabbi with Uņukal, seems to have been a contiguous village afterwards absorbed into Kädaroļi. Arakere (passim) must be in or very near Narendra. On Palasige, now Halsi (1. 46), and Navilür (1. 52) see on inscription A, p. 300. Tadakodu (1. 26) is given as “Tadkod " in the Bombay Survey, sheet 276, and as "Turkod" on the Indian Atlas; it lies
1 See Sewell, Eclipses of the Moon in India, table E, p. 26. In European tables, which take the civil day beginning at midnight, this eclipee is entered for Monday, 11 January : seo, ..., Von Oppolzer's Canon der Fin. sternisse, p. 861, No. 8606. But it belongs for India to the Sunday.
* Sewell's book, quoted in the preceding note, given in table G the means of working out this detail. * See & note on this name under the inscription A above (p. 300), Archeol. Sure. West. Ind., vol. 3, p. 106.
. Ind. Ant., vol. XVIII, p. 311, line 8.