Epigraphia Indica Vol 07

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

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. VII.
of the 24th March A.D. J143, and on this day the 7th tithi of the bright half of Chaitra commenced 8 h. 9 m., and the nakshatra by the equal space system was Årdrâ for 23 h. 48 m., after mean sunrise ; 1.6. the equinox took place while the moon was in the nakshatra Årdra, during the 7th tithi of the bright half. This result, moreover, shows that the tithi on the day now given by me was really, in agreement with the term 8-lithi of the original text, an excellent tithi; for, a seventh tithi of the bright half, on which - as is the case in the present instance- & Sankranti takes place, is called Mahajaya, and for making donations is superior even to an eclipse.
For these reasons I have no doubt whatever that the 24th March A.D. 1143 in the proper equivalent of the date, and that the Saka year intended is 1065, not 1056. The writer of the date has wrongly written rasa-vifikha-, instead of vilikha-rasa.
No. 2.-DATES OF PANDYA KINGS. BY F. KIELHORN, PH.D., LL.D., C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN.
(Continued from Vol. VI. page 315.) I herewith publish thirteen more Pandya dates, the European equivalents of which may be given with certainty. Eight of these dates, in addition to regnal years, also give the Saka years in which the dates fell, and the three latest dates, Nos. 41-43, also quote the corresponding Jovian years, according to the southern luni-solar system. I have still a number of other dates - of apparently twelve different På dys kings - the publication of which may be deferred to the time when more dates of the same kings have been discovered.
A.-VIRA-PANDYA.
31.-In the Kaildsapati temple at Srivaikuņtham. 2 . . . . . . . . . . sri-Vi(vi)ra-Pandiyade[va]rkku ya. 3 adu 15vadu Kå[r]tt[i]gai-ma[da*]ttu 13 tiyad[i]yum apara-pakshattu
saptam[i]yum Viyala-kkiļamaiyam petra Magattu nå!. “In the 15th year of the reign) of the glorious Vira-Pandyadêva, - on the day of Maghå, which corresponded to a Thursday, and to the seventh tithi of the second fortnight, and to the 13th solar day of the month of Karttigai."
Between A.D. 1200 and 1500 the only year for which this date would be correct, is 1267. In this year the Vrischika-sankranti took place 13 h. 33 m. after mean sunrise of Friday, the 28th October. The 13th day of the month of Vrischika (or Karttigai) therefore was Thurgday, the 10th November A.D. 1267; and on this day the 7th tithi of the dark half of the month Kårttika) ended 8 h. 9 m., and the nakshatra was Magha, by the equal space system for 19 h. 42 m., by the Brabma-siddhanta for 5 h. 16 m., and according to Garga for 7 h. 53 m., after mean sunrise.
1 Compare Ind. Ant. Vol. XXVI. p. 178.
• The date No. 82, bere published, has been sent to me by Dr. Hultzech quite recently. It proves the correet. Dess of the equivalent which I had previously ascertained for the date No. 31,' but which for wapt of confirmation I did not wish to publish with my first series of Pandya dates.
I No. 174 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1895.