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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Perhaps Sunday, 2nd October A.D. 1390 ; but on this day Jupiter's true place was in Vrischika (and his mean place in Dhanub), not in Simha.
943.-Kollam 301.--Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 253. Translation of a Cholapuram (RajendraChoļeśvara temple) Tamil inscription of Vira-Keralavarman of Véņadu :
* In the year opposite the year 301, since the appearance of Kollam, with the sun in the sign of Leo' (Simha).
[Kollam 301=S. 1047-48.]
944.-Kollam 319.-Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 255. Translation of a Tiruvallam Old Malayalam inscription of Vira-Keralavarman of Vopadu :
In the Kollam year 319, with Jupiter in the sign Scorpio' (Vrischika), and the sun in Capricornus' (Makara).3
[Kollam 319 = $. 1065-66.]
945.- Kollam 335.- Ind. Ant. Vol. XXVI. p. 141. Puravacheri Tamil inscription recording private donations :
In the year opposite the year 335 after the appearance of Kollam.' [Kollam 335 = $. 1081-82.]
946.-Kollam 338.-Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 257. Translation of a Puravachéri Tamil inscription of Vira-Ravivarman of Vêņadu :
In the year opposite the year 336, after the appearance of Kollam, with the sun six days old in the sign of Taurus' (Vrishabha), Saturday, Makayiram' (Mrigasirsha) star.'
[$. 1083]: Saturday, 29th April A.D. 1161; see ibid. Vol. XXV. p. 54, No. 1.
09Kollam 342.-Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 277. Translation of a Puravachêri Tamil inscription [of Vira-Ravivarman of Vēņadu P]:
In the year 342 after the appearance of Kollam, with the sun 7 days old in Leo' (Simha). [Kollam 342 = $. 1088-89.]
948.-Kollam 348 (for 347 P).-Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 278. Translation of a Tiruvattar Old Malayalam inscription of Vira-Udaiyamartandavarman of Venadu:
"In the Kollam year 348, with Jupiter in Cancer' (Karkataka), and the sun.. days old in Pisces' (Mina), Thursday, Anusham' (Anuradha) star.'
[$. 1094] : Thursday, 16th March A.D. 1172; see ibid. Vol. XXV. p. 54, No. 4, and p. 174.
949,-Kollam 368.-Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 283. Translation of Viranam (near Arringal) fragments of one or two Tamil inscriptions of a Vira-Kéraļavarman P], one of which is dated
in the Kollam year 368, with Jupiter in Virgo' (Kanya), and the sun two days old in Taurus' (Vrishabba).
[Kollam 368 = $. 1114-15.]
For this and the following inscriptions compare also the late P. S. Pillai's Some Early Sovereigns of Tra rancore, Madras, 1894.
? This is the Tamil name of the Travancore country. * In the Kollam yeur 319 - A.D. 1143-44 Jupiter was not in Vrischiks.
* For another Tamil inscription from the saine place aud of apparently the same date, see Ind 41. Vol. XXIV. p. 258.
I.e. 'on the 6th solar day.' Iu the Kollam year 368-A.D. 1192-98 Jupiter was not in Kanya.
