Epigraphia Indica Vol 06

Author(s): E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. VI.
(L. 20.) Here there are the following) verses sung by Manu:-[Here follow four benedictive and imprecatory verses.]
(L. 26.) He who from greed or infatuation takes away this (gift), is guilty of the five great sins. May blessings rest on bows and Brahmans !!
No. 3.- DATES OF CHOLA KINGS. BY F. Kuelhorn, Po.D., LL.D., C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN.
(Continued from Vol. V. page 200.) Vol. IV. of Mr. Rice's Epigraphia Carnatica again contains a number of Chola inscriptions with Saka dates. Dr. Hultzsch has sent me revised transcripts and translations of six of them (Nos. 32-37), which are all in the Heggadadêvankôte tâluks of the Mysore district. The transoripts were made from inked estampages, prepared by Mr. H. Krishna Sastri, B.A. The seventh of the new dates (No. 38) is taken from Vol. III. of Dr. Hultzsch's South Indian Inscriptions.
I would add here a few words about the commencement of Rajaraja's reign. Above, Vol. V. p. 48, I found that that reign commenced between (approximately) the 24th December A.D. 984 and the 29th August A.D. 985. By the statement of the Suchindram inscription, ibid. p. 44, according to which the tenth year of the king's reign commenced with the month of Karkataka, the previously found period is reduced to the time from the 26th June to the 25th July A.D. 985.
A.-RAJENDRA-CHOLA I.
32.- On & stone at the Baņeśvara temple at Beļatúru. 1 Sri svasti [ll] Saka-varisha Svom bhaynāra-nålvatta-mûre (ra)neya varishada
Randra-samvatsarada Å. 2 shadha-masada pumpave UttardshAdha-nakshatrah Maka3 ra-chandram Bri(bri)haspati-varam sri-Mudigonda-Rajendra-Chôlam rajyam [ge]4 yyutt-ire iyåņdu ombhattåvudara (10).
«Thursday, the moon being in Makars, the nakshatra being Uttaråshådhå, during the full-moon tithi of the month of Ashâdha in the Raudra year (which corresponded) to the ninehundred-and-forty-third year of the Saks years, in the ninth year of the reign of the glorious Mudigonda-Rajendra-Cha."
Tho Jovian year Raudra by the southern luni-solar system was Saka-Samvat 943 as a current year (= A.D. 1020-21). In that year the month Âshådhs was intercalary, and the full-moon tithi of the second or nija Åsbadhe ended 17 h. 55 m. after mean suprise of Thursday, the 7th July A.D. 1020, when the nakshatra was Uttaráshådhå, by the Brahms-siddharta for 7 h. 13 m., and by the equal-space system and according to Garga for 13 h. 47 m., after mean
1 Cows and Brihmaņs are often mentioned together in this oriler; compare e.g. line 16 of Rudrndaman's inscription referred to above; Gupta Imor. p. 32, 1. 10 of the text; Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 7, 1. 52, and p. 129, 1. 28: South-Ind. Inser. Vol. I. p. 89, 1. 1; Edmdyana, Bo. ed., I. 26,5; UIL. 23, 28 (rasti g6-brdhmapibhyar-tw): III. 24, 21 (rasti 98 Ordbmandndnis cha); VI, 107. 49; etc.
Nr. Rice's Ep. Cars. Vol. 1y. Hg. 16. • The opening words of line 1 as far as combha are engraved at right angle to the remainder.
This word is entered below the line and its omission indicated by a cross above meya.