Epigraphia Indica Vol 08

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

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
VOLUME VIII.
No. 1.- DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN.
(Continued from Vol. VII. page 177.)
OF
the numerous dates of Chôla kings sent to me by Prof. Hultzsch and Mr. Venkayya, I again publish seventeen. Among these, the most interesting and, I may add, those which have given me most trouble-are perhaps the five dates Nos. 85-89 of Rajaraja [II.] Parakêsarivarman, which prove that this king, of whom no dates have yet been published here, commenced to reign between (approximately) the 27th March and the 23rd November A.D. 1148. The date No. 99 reduces the time, previously found for the commencement of the reign of Rajendra-Chôla III., to the period from (approximately) the 21st March to the 20th April A.D. 1246. The date No. 94, of Kulôttunga-Chôla III., is of the 25th January A.D. 1217, while the dates of his successor Rajaraja III. show that this king commenced to reign already between (approximately) the 23rd June and the 13th August A.D. 1216; and similarly the dates Nos. 96 and 97, of Rajaraja III., are of the 7th February and the 22nd April A.D. 1248, while the years of his successor Râjêndra-Chôla III., as has just been stated, are counted from some time between (approximately) the 21st March and the 20th April A.D. 1246. The date No. 100 belongs to a king or chief Tribhuvanavira-Chôla, who apparently commenced to reign in A.D. 1331-32.
A.-VIKRAMA-CHOLA.
84. In the Saranarayaṇa-Perumal temple at Tiruvadi.1
1 Svasti sri [11] Pû-mâdu punara
9
kô=Pparakêéaripanma
10 râna Tiribuvanachchakkaravatti[ga] śri-Vikkirama-Śôladêvar
11 kku yan[ḍu*] 7vadu Sim [ha]-nayarru apara-pakshattu êkâ12 [di(da))iyan Tiruvadiraiyam pezz [V][y]Ala-kkilamai-nál.
"In the 7th year (of the reign) of king Parakêsarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vikrama-Chôladeva,- on a Thursday, which corresponded to (the day of) Ardra and to the eleventh tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Simha."
1 No. 30 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1903.