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958.- Kollam 578.-Ind. Ant. Vol. XXV. pp. 187 and 188. Translation of a Padmanábhapuram (Alvar temple) Sanskrit and Tamil inscription of the Kerala king Vira-Kêraļa Martåndavarman of Kilappêrûr :
In the Kollam year 578, the sun being 26 days old in Mesham, on Saturday, new moon, the lunar mansion being] Bbarani.'s
[8. 1325] : Saturday, 21st April A.D. 1403.
959.-Kollam 844. Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 360. Inscription on a bell, given to a temple at Tirukurangudi by a prince Adityavarman, ruler of Vanchi, of the lineage of Jayasimba -
Srimat-Kolamba-varshê bhavati. [Kollam 644 = $. 1390-91.]
960.-- Kollam 854.- Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 361. Suchindram inscription of a prince Ramavarman, ruler of Vanchi :3
Abdê Kôlar ba-sarjõd visati Gavi Curaa mitra-yâte(?) Tul-anty@(P) Maitrê(trar) kshe -Enduvarê pratipadi Vanitá-lagnakê.
[$. 1400] : Monday, 26th October A.D. 1478; see ibid. Vol. XXV. p. 56, No. 15. 961.- Kollam 855.- Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 204. Varkkalai inscription of Mårtånda :
(L. 1).-Kolambê mamat=7&ti vatsara itë mâsê Vpish-Arddhe Guroruvvård bho Mrigasirshaké Vidhi-tithau Simhê cha lagnê subhê.
[$. 1402] : Thursday, 11th May A.D. 1480.
962.- Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 68, and Plate. Cochin (Jews') Tamil plates of Kôgô maikondan, His Majesty the king, the glorious Bhaskara Ravivarman, staying at Muyirikkodu, recording a grant made to Issuppu Irappan (i.e. Joseph Rabbân); dated
in the thirty-sixth year opposite the second year.'
963.- Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 290, and Plate. Tirunelli (now Colonel Wooldridge's) Tamil plates of His Majesty king Bhaskara Ravivarman, containing an order by his feudatory Šamkara-Kodavarman of Puraigilânadu , dated
in the forty-sixth year opposite the current year... in the month of Makara, when Jupiter was standing in Simba, in the above year.'
964.-Madras Jour. Lit. Sc. Vol. XIII. Part I. p. 123. Kottayam (Syrian Christians') Tamil plates of king Sthåņu Ravi, 10 dated"
in the fifth year which was current within the time during which king... was reigning ... in this year.'
965.- Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 295, and Plate. Kottayam (Syrian Christians') Tamil plate of Vira-Raghava-Chakravartin, a descendant of Vira-Koraļa-Chakravartin
On the day of Rohini, a Saturday on which passed" (the day) twenty-one (of) the month Mina, (when) Jupiter (was) in Makara, while the glorious Vira-Raghava-Chakravartin... was ruling prosperously.'
[$. 1241) : Saturday, 15th March A.D. 1320 ; see ibid. Vol. VI. p. 83.
"I.e. 'on the 28th solar day.'
In the Sanskrit part of the inscription the date is assigned to s. 1826 (Sakhaldica). I.e. Vafiji; see above, No. 834.
• Compare above, No. 999. L. 644.
. Le 654 Le. 655.
* Le. he who had assumed the title "king of kings." . In the Hebrew translation in the possession of the Cochin Jewe) identified with Koduhallar (Cranganore). ** See Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 291, note 5. " See Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 287. W I owe the literal translation of the date to Dr. Hultssch,
