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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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19 [vv-&nda] Kar[kadaga-ngya]rra parvva-pakshat]tu chatu[r]tth[iy]um Ve!![i]
kk[i]lamaiyum [pe]mra Pu[narbų). 20 satti=nå.
"In the 31st year of the reign) of king Parakesarivarman [alias] the lord, the glorious Rajendra-Choladeva, on the day of Punarvasu, which corresponded to a Friday and to the fourth tithi of the frst fortnight of the month of Karkataka in this year."
The date is intrinsically wrong because the nakshatra on the fourth tithi of a bright half in the month of Karkataka cannot be Punarvasa. The equivalent of the date apparently is Friday, the 23rd July A.D. 1042, which was the 28th day of the month of Karkataka and which was entirely occupied by the fourth tithi of the bright half of Sråvana). The nakshatra on this day was Uttara-Phalgani, by the equal space system and according to Garga for 13 h. 8 m., and by the Brahma-siddhanta for 9 h. 51 m., after mean sanrise.
C.-KULOTTUNGA-CHOLA I.
83.- In the Karavandiśvara temple at Uļaiyárköyil.' 1 Svasti erill Pugal sa Inda paņari.. .
.. 8 ...... ....[kov-Irája] kesaripat[ma]r=&na Tribhuva9. nachchakkaravattiga! $r-Ko[1]0[t]tunga-boladevar[k]ku yandu 16ávadu...
. . . . . . . Mina-ngyarra (Apara-pakshattu V]i[y]&la-kkilamai(ylum
dacha(sa)miyu[m] perra Uttirada[ttu nál].
“In the 16th year of the reign of king Rajakesarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottunga-Choladêva, on the day of Uttarashadha, which corresponded to a Thursday and to the tenth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Mina."
A date of the month of Mina of the 16th year of Kulottunga-Chôļa I. would be expected to fall in A.D. 1086, and in my opinion this date undoubtedly corresponds to Thursday, the 12th March A.D. 1088, which was the 19th day of the month of Mina, and on which the nakshatra was Uttaráshadhi, by the equal space system and according to Garga for 16 h. 25 m., and by the Brahma-siddhånta for 9 h. 51 m., after mean sunrise. But the tithi which ended on this day. 10 h. 50 m. after mean sunrise, was the 9th, not the 10th tithi, of the dark half (of, Phålguns).This result shows that the word dachamiyum of the original date should be altered to natamiyนm.
D.- VIKRAMA-CHOLA. 84.- In the Vámanapurisvara temple at Tirumāņikuļi." i [8]va[s]ti ár[1] [Il*) Pu-måda puņara : 2.....k8=P[parak@]sar[i]pa[9]mar=[ga] Ti[r]ibuvanachcha [km]karavattiga!
fr-Vikkirama-Soladevarku yandu padip-o[oråvadu)... [naya]r[u
apa ]ra-pakshattu ekadasiyam Budap-kilamaiyum perra Visågattu nå!.
“In the eleventh year of the reign) of king Parakesarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vikrama-Chôladeva, on the day of Visakha, which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the eleventh tithi of the second fortnight of the month of
The tithi was a prathama-chaturtit. · No. 899 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1902. . See above, p. 7, note 6.
• It is not absolutely excluded that the writer wanted to write waramiyum, and that the two Grantha letters da and cha are in reality badly shaped Na and or, respectively. E. H.]
No 148 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1902.
