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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
Under the preceding date it has been stated that the nakshatra was Asvini on the 16th day of the month of Simha of the third year of the king's reign; Asvini therefore cannot have been the nakshatra on the 27th day of the same month. Nor would the weekday be correct; for the 27th day of Simha of the third year would be Saturday, the 23rd August A.D. 1180 (when the nakshatra was Uttara-Phalguni).- I have not found any year of the reign of KulottungaChola III. for which the date would be correct.
68. In the Vâmanapurisvara temple at Tirumâņikuļi.1 1 Svasti śri [*] Tiibuvagachchakravattiga! ri-Virarkjendira-Sċjaděvaşku êlâvadu Simha-[nayar]ru irabattigkn-diyadi âna pürshva(rvva)-pakahattu chchaturdasiyam-ga Sadaiya
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2 ttu nål.
"In the seventh year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Virarajendra-Chôladeva,- on the day of Satabhishaj, which was the fourteenth tithi of the first fortnight and a Wednesday, which was the twenty-sixth solar day of the month of Simha."
The 26th day of the month of Simha of the 7th year of Kulôttunga-Chôls III. corresponds to Wednesday, the 22nd August A.D. 1184. On this day the 14th tithi of the bright half (of Bhadrapada) ended 13 h. 19 m., and the nakshatra was Satabhishaj, by the equal space system and according to Garga from 1 h. 19 m., and by the Brahma-siddhanta from 1 h. 58 m., after mean sunrise.
If this were a date of Râjêndra-Chôla III., it would be quite incorrect.
yându Budan-kilamaiyum
1 Svasti
69. In the Darbharaṇyusvara temple at Tirunallar.5 śri [II] Tiribuvanachchakkaravattiga! Madurai kondu Pandiyan muḍittalaiyum kond-aruliya si-Kulottunga-Sôladêvarkku [y]ându 17vadu Kumba[n]ayarru pûrva-pattiśattu ti[ti]yaiyum? Tingat-kilamaiyum perra Uttiraṭṭâdinâļ.
"In the 17th year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulôttungs-Chôladeva, who, having taken Madurai, was pleased to take also the crowned head of the Pandya, on the day of Uttara-Bhadrapada, which corresponded to a Monday and to the second tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Kumbha."
1 Svasti
The date corresponds to Monday, the 18th February A.D. 1195, which was the 21st day of the month of Kumbha, and on which the second tithi of the bright half (of Phalguna) commenced 1 h. 55 m. after mean sunrise, while the nakshatra was Uttara-Bhadrapada, by the Brahma-siddhanta and according to Garga the whole day, and by the equal space system from 3 h. 17 m. after mean sunrise.
70. In the Kripapurisvara temple at Tiruvenņainallûr.
sri [11] Pů maraviya dissimngattôn
Tiribuvanachchakkaravarttigal Maduraiyum Pândiyan mudi-ttalaiyun-gond-aralina
1 No. 164 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1902.
2 The da of dati" is entered below the fi.
7 Read dvittyaiyum.
The name Virarâjëndradêva (II.) is applied to Kulottunga III. in two inscriptions of the 5th year at Chidambaram (Nos. 121 and 122 of 1887-88).
The Simba-samkranti took place 16 b. 48 m. after mean sunrise of the 27th July A.D. 1184.
No. 895 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1902. Read -pakshattu. No. 318 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1902.
