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DATE OF THE KOTTAYAM PLATE.
Mayûravarman I. to that of Adityavarman, which is put forward in the Kargudari inscription of A.D. 1108. The alleged genealogy of the Western Gangas of Talakaḍ, as presented in the spurious records, is a genealogy of this same kind, without a Parânic introduction. A Purânic introduction was eventually prefixed to it. And, as far as is disclosed at present, in genuine records, that is to say, in records which contain all that fabulous matter, but put it forward bona fide, as a story that had come to be really believed, and without using it fraudulently,the fictitious historical pedigree and the Purânic introduction, both together, first appear in records of the eleventh century A.D. at 'Purale,' Humcha, and 'Kallur Gudda' in Mysore. The Purâtic introduction seems to have been invented in that century. We shall consider, on another occasion, the period to which the inception of the fictitious historical pedigree may be carried back.
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I subjoin a few supplementary remarks which suggested themselves after this paper had gone into pages.
Page 53, text line 3, and note 7. The reading a[nka]-Tri[n]tran may be accepted; see some remarks under Krishna III., in a note on the appellations of the Rashtrakuta king, which will be given in a subsequent article in this volume.
Page 57, note 8. Another instance of the occurrence of ankakara in a biruda the first component of which is not a proper name, is Chaladankakara, "the champion of firmness of character," in the case of the Rashtrakuta prince Indra IV. (Insers. at Srav.-Bel. No. 57, verses 5, 6).
Page 71, line 24. The date of A.D. 953 for Bûtuga II. is supplied by an inscription at Chinchli in the Gadag tâluka; see some remarks under Krishna III. in the place referred to above.
Page 72, line 2. It may be added that the killing of Panchala in battle at the command of Narmaḍi-Taila II. is attributed to the Mahamandaléévara Ahavamalla-Bhûteyadêva or Bhûtiga, whose descendant Barma was governing the Lôkapura twelve and other circles, at Toragal, in A.D. 1187, in the time of Sômêsvara IV.; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 96, text lines' 4 to 6 (the verse has not been well translated). I am indebted to Professor Kielhorn for drawing my attention to this reference.
No. 7. THE DATE OF THE KOTTAYAM (SYRIAN CHRISTIANS')
PLATE OF VIRA-RAGHAVA.
BY F. KIELHORN, PH.D., LL.D., C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN.
After a careful examination of the Grantha letters in the Kôṭṭayam plate of Vira-Raghava, above, Vol. IV. page 293, Mr. Venkayya has intimated that, on paleographical grounds, ViraRaghava's grant may be assigned to about the 13th or 14th century A.D. Convinced of the general correctness of Mr. Venkayya's conclusion, I have examined the date of the grant for the four hundred years from A.D. 1100 to A.D. 1500, and am enabled to state that during that period3 there is only a single day for which the date is absolutely correct, viz. Saturday, the 15th March A.D. 1820,
Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 249; and see Dyn. Kan. Distrs. pp. 559, 560.
See Mr. Rice's Mysore, revised edition, Vol. I. p. 308 ff.; also, his Annual Report for the year ending 31st March, 1891, which gives the date of the Humcha record as Saka-Samvat 999 (expired), A.D. 1077-78.
For the same period of years I have calculated the date of the Tiruppavanam plates of the Pandya Jatavarman alias Kulasekharadeva, from the data furnished by Dr. Hultzsch in Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 288, with the result that the only day between A.D. 1100 and 1500 which satisfies all the requirements of the date, is Saturday, the 29th November A.D. 1214. I may have an opportunity to treat more fully of this date on another occasion.
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