Epigraphia Indica Vol 08

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

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. VIII.
mean sunrise, while the nakshatra was Rohiņi, by the Brahma-siddhanta and according to Garga during the whole day, and by the equal space system from 6 h. 34 m. after mean sunrise.
C.-KULOTTUNGA-CHOLA III.
90.-In the Patapisvara temple at Aridvaramangalam. 1 ... [cha]kkaravattiga! sri raMadurai koņd-aru[Jiya Sri-Kulo[t]tunga
Soladêva[r]kku yâdu 10vadu pattávadu Ma[ga]ra-nayarru apara-pasha (kshattu
pañchamiyum Sevvå[y]-kkilamaiyum perra Uttirattádi-na.
“In the 10th -tenth-year (of the reign) of the emperor [of the three worlds], the glorious Kulottunga-Chladova, who was pleased to take Madurai,- on the day of UttaraBhadrapada, which corresponded to a Tuesday and to the fifth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Makara."
The wording of this date is intrinsically wrong. As in the dates of the inscriptions Nos. 480 and 604 of my Southern List, either the nakshatra Uttara-Bhadrapadá has been qnoted erroneously instead of Uttara-Phalguni, or the second fortnight instead of the first. My calculation has shown that really the latter is the case.
The intended day undonbtedly is Tuesday, the 5th January A.D. 1188, which was the 11th day of the month of Makara, and on which the 5th tithi of the bright half of Mágba) ended 19 h. 42 m. after mean sunrise, while the nakshatra was Uttara-Bhadrapadá, by the Brahma-siddhanta and according to Garga the whole day, and by the oqual space system from 5 h. 55 m. after mean sunrise.
01.-In the Arunachalêsvara temple at Tiruvannamalai. 1 Svasti [11] 2 Tiribu vanavi(vi)radêvarku y&pdu 35va[du] . . . . 3 M[i]duņa-nåyarru ettán-diyadiyum A[ou]lamum perra tiru-Na[ya]rra
kkilamai-nål. “In the 35th year (of the reign) of Tribhuvanaviradêva, - on a sacred Sunday which corresponded to the day of) Anuradha and to the eighth solar day of the month of Mithuna."
The date should fall in A.D. 1213. In this year the Mithuna-sankranti took place 3 h. 1 m. after mean sunrise of Sunday, the 26th May, which was the first day of the month of Mithuna. The 8th day of the same month therefore was Sunday, the 2nd June A.D. 1213; and on this day the nakshatra was Anuradha, by the Brahma-siddhanta for 22 h. 20 m., and by the equal space system and according to Garga from 3 h. 17 m., after mean sunrise.
02.- In the Kapardisvara temple at Tiruvalažjuli." 1 Svasti sr[1] [118] 2 Tr[i]bhuvanachchakkara[va]tt[i]ga[!] Maduraiyum f[la] 3 mum Karuvarum På[o]diyanai mudi-ttalaiy[u]4 n-gond-aru[li] virar-abhishekamum vi5 jayar-abhishekam[um] paņņi-ar[u]liya gri-Tiri6 [b]uva[na]v[ira] dêvarku ya[n]du mu[p]pat[t]age
ra.
1 No. 611 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1902. * The beginning of the inscription is built in.
Cancel the syllables fr • No. 557 of the Governinent Epigraphist's collection for 1902. • No. 631 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1902.