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correspond to Saturday, the 14th January A.D. 1128. On this day the 10th tithi of the bright half of Magha ended lh. 34m., and the moon was in Robiņi for 6h. 34m. after mean sunrise. The longitude of the sun at mean sunrise was 290° 12', and the lagna Mina therefore lasted from about 2h. 40m. to about 4h. 40m. after mean sunrise. For Saka-Sanyat 1079 expired, the date would correspond to Saturday, the 11th January A.D. 1158. On this day the 10th tithi of the bright half of Magha ended about 16h. 30m. after mean sunrise. The moon was in Rəhiņi by the Brahma-Siddhanta and according to Garga from sunrise, and by the equal-space system from 3h. 56m. after mean sunrise, and remained in Rəhiņi, by all the three systems, to the end of the day. The longitude of the sun was 288° 24' at sunrise, and the lagna Mîna therefore lasted from about 2h. 46m. to about 4h. 46m. after mean sunrise. I am inclined to think that the second equivalent is preferable to the first, because the abhisheka actually took place during the 10th tithi." Professor Kielhorn's concluding remark corroborates the view expressed above, that Saka-Samvat 1079, and not 1049, is intended.
Further we are told, in Sanskřit verse (v. 40), in Sanskțit prose (11. 82-85), and in Telugu prose (11. 85-90), that on the very day of his anointment, Malla or, with his full titles, Sarval6kAśraya-Vishnuvardhana-Mahåråjs alias Mallapadêva-Chakravartin, gave the village of Gudivada in the district of Prôl-nându to the temple of Kunti-Madhava at Sripithapura. The boundaries of the village are specified in lines 90-93. I am not able to identify either the village or any of its boundaries. But it is known from the first Pithapuram inscription and from inscriptions at Sarpavaram that the district of Prol-nându or Prôln-nându included Navakhandavåda (near Pithapuram) and Sarpavaram. The inscription ends with the usual imprecations (11. 93-96) and the statement that it was written by Kantacharya of Sripithapuram, the same person who had engraved the first and second inscriptions on the pillar.
The village of Bhimavaram contains, besides the Bhimêsvara temple, a temple of Nerdyana. The ancient name of this temple was Råjanarayana-Vinnagara, i.e. the Vishnu temple of Rajanåråyaņa.' According to an inscription of Kulôttunga I. (No. 473 of 1893) it was founded by a Vaisya named Mandaya, and was apparently called after the king himself, who had the surname R&janarayana. This temple contains two inscriptions of SarvalókásrayaVishņuvardhana-Maharaja alias Mallapadêve-Chakravartin or Mallappadeva-Chakravartin (Nos. 486 and 487 of 1893). Both inscriptions belong to the 3rd year of the king's reign. The first is also dated in Saka-Samvat 100[0], and the second in 1098. The second inscription is preceded by four mutilated Sansksit verses (No. 489 of 1893), which record that Mallappadeva was the son of Vijayaditya by Ga[igâdêvi). Hence he must be the same person as MallapaVishnuvardhana, to whose time the third Pithapuram inscription belongs. According to the two Bhimavaram inscriptions, he would have ascended the throne in Saka-Samvat 1098.6 I am unable to reconcile this fact with the statement of the Pithapuram inscription, that he was crowned in Saka-Samvat 1124.
Another inscription of the Narayana temple at Bhimavaram (No. 474 of 1893) records & grant made in Saka-Samvat 1098 by Narendre, who was the son of Vijayaditys of Vêngi by Lakshmidêvi and the grandson of Malla. This Narendra was evidently a half-brother of Mallapa III. He appears to be referred to as the son of Vijayaditys of Vengi by Lakshmidevi in a grant from the Godavari district.
See p. 33 above.
See p. 227 above.
See Nos. 472, 476 and 478 of 1893. See South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 59, verse 12.
The same follows from an insoription of Saka-Sanyat 110[6] and the (1 ]oth year of Sarvalók AraraVishnuvardhana Maharaja (No. 479 of 1898), which has to be assigoed to Mallapa III.
See Dr. Floot's abstract of this grant, Ind. And. Vol. XX. p. 268.
