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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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No. 31.- DATES OF CHOLA KINGS. BY F. KIELHORN, Ps.D., LL.D., C.I.E. ; GÖTTINGEN.
(Oontinued from page 73.) When my account of the ten Chôla dates, published above, pp. 66-73, had already been printed, Dr. Haltzsch sent me for examination the texts and translations of the following fresh Chôļa dates. Five of these new dates (Nos. 11-15) belong to the reign of the king Rajadhiraja ; and the four other dates (Nos. 16-19) are of the reign of the king Kulôttungs-Chôļa III.
A.-RAJADHIRAJA. 11.-Inscription on a stone behind the 8ômêsvara temple at Mindigal in the
Kolar district. 1 Svasti eri [11] Saka-yarisha 97[0]nêya Sabbajitu-samva2 tsaradal 'Srimat-Vira-Påndiyana
taleyum
Serama3 na skleyu[m] konda kôv=Irajakesaripadmar=&na ndegår fri-Rajadhi4 råjadêvargge yâņda muvattanêya.
" In the year Sarvajit (which corresponded to the Saka year 97[0]. (and) in the thirtieth year of the reign) of king Rajakesarivarman, alias the lord, the glorious Rajadhirajadêva, who took the head of the glorious Vira-Pandya and the palace of the Chêra king."
This date does not admit of exact verification, and all that can be said about it in this respect, is that the Jovian year Sarvajit by the southern luni-solar system does correspond to the given Saka year 970 as a current year (=A.D. 1047-48). The date nevertheless is of great value, because the Saka year 970 current (or 969 expired) is also joined here with the 30th year of the king's reign. For, assuming this statement to be correct, the first year of Rajadhiraja's reign must, at any rate partly, have coincided with Saka-Samvat 940 expired, and the 26th year of the king's reign in the date No. 12 must approximately correspond to Saka-Samvat 965 expired; the 27th year in the date No. 13 to Saka-Samvat 966 expired; the 29th year in the date No. 14 to Suka-Samyat 968 expired; and the 32nd year in the date No. 15 to Saka-Samvat 971 expired. 19.-Inscription in the Vaidyangtha temple at Tirumalavadi in the
Trichinopoly district. 1 II Svasti erf [11] Tingaleer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Jayah konda-Solan=ennam m adi-kela kôv=Ir&jakdaripanmar=ana udaiyar
brf-Rajadhirajadêve 9 rkku gându [2]6ávadu .
. . . . 10 . . . . . imyattai Mina-Dâmarra Badan-kila.nai perna U. 11 ttiratti-nânga ira.
In the [2]6th year of the reign) of the wise king Rajakesarivarman surnamed Jayankonda-Chola, alias the lord, the glorious Rajadhirajadova, at night on the day of Uttara(-Phalguni), which corresponded to a Wednesday in the month of Mins in this year."
1 No. 279 of the Government Epigraphist's collectiou for the year 1896. • Read Srimad. Ffra.. • No. 75 of the Goveroment Epigraphist's collection for the year 1896. Bead iov-attai Misa-ndyarru.
