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5 avada Viļashaba-nayarru pûrva-pakshatta' daga
6 miyum Viyala-kilamaiyum perra Svâti-nal.. . "In the 20th year of the reign of the emperor of the three worlds, KulôttungaChôļadēva, who was pleased to take Madurai and the crowned head of the Pandya,- on the day of Svati, which corresponded to a Thursday and to the tenth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Vạishabha."
From what has been stated above, this date of the month of Rishabha (April-May) of the 20th year of the king's reign would be expected to fall in A.D. 1198 (in Saka-Samvat 1120 expired) ; but for that year the date is quite incorrect.
In A.D. 1198 the month of Rishabha lasted from the 25th April to the 25th May, and during that time the 10th tithi of the bright half of the lunar month Jyuishtha, as a kshaya-tithe) commenced 0 h. 43 m. and ended 22 h. 43 m. after mean sunrise of Sunday, the 17th May, when the nakshatras by the equal space system and according to Garga were Uttara-Phalguni and Hasta, and by the Brahma-siddhanta Hasts and Chitra.
Of the many years for which I have calculated the date, only the year A.D. 1200 (the month Rishabha of which would fall in the 22nd year of the king's reign) yields an approximately correct result. In that year the tithi of the date ended 7 h. 9 m. after mean sunrise of Thursday, the 25th May, which was the last day of the month of Rishabha, and on which the nakshatra was Svati, by the equal space system and according to Garga from 19 h. 42 m., and by the Brahma-siddlsi ta from 16 h. 25 m., after mean sunrise. Even this result I cannot regard ae satisfactory, because, in my opinion, this Thursday, the 25th May A.D. 1200, would bave been described as the day of Chitra.'
No. 22.-VAKKALERI PLATES OF KIRTIVARMAN II.;
SAKA-SAMVAT. 679. By F. KIELHORN, PH.D., LL.D., C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. These plates were first brought to public notice, about twenty years ago, by Mr. L. Rice. C.I.E., who in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. VIII. p. 23 ff., gave the text and a translation of the inscription which they contain, with photolithographs prepared under Dr. Fleet's supervision. The plates were obtained, and are still, at Vakkaleri, the head-quarters of a hóbaļi in the Kblar district of the Mysoru state. My revised text is based on excellent impressions, furnished to me by Dr. Hultzsch, for whom the original plates were kindly obtained on loan by Mr. Rice.
These are five oopper-plates, the first and last of which are inscribed on one side only. and each of which measures about 94" broad by from 4(in the middle) to 5" (at the two ende) high. The plates have raised rims and are strung on a ring, which had been cut already before the impressions were taken. The ring is about 4+* in diameter and thick, and has its ends secured in the base of an elliptical seal, which measures about 1}" by 17" and bears, in relief on a countersunk surface, a standing boar which faces to the proper right.The writing is well engraved and is in an excellent state of preservation, so that almost every
It is easy to prove that during the time, which is actually occupied by the tenth tithi of the bright balf, the moon cannot possibly be in the nakshatra Svati during the month of Rishabba.
A revised text of part of the inscription was given by Dr. Holtzsch, from the published photolithographe, in South-Ind. Inger. Vol. I. p. 146.- Dr. Holtzsch informs me that be cleaned the plates with diluted nitrie wid before taking the fresh impressions, from wnich the accompanying photolithograpba bave been prepared under Dr. Fleat's sopervision.
