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DATES OF PANDYA KINGS.
2775
A.-JATAVARMAN KULASEKHARA.
44.-In the Agastygsvara temple at Tiruchchuņai.! 1 Tir[ibo]va[na]chchakkara[va]tt[i]ga! sri-Kulagêgaradê[vazku ya]ndu 13 edir
14va2 da SM@[la-n]@yar[ra &]para-pakkatta panjamiyum Budap-k[i]la[m]aiyum
perra Mu(malattu 3 [n]A!.
"In the 14th opposite the 18th year of the reign) of the omperor of the three worlde, the glorious Kulasekharadêva,- on the day of Mula, which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the fifth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Mesha.”
The manner in which the regnal year is given in this date, the 14th opposite the 13th year'- in my opinion renders it highly probable that the date belongs to Jaţävarman Kulasekhara of whom I have examined two dates, of the twelfth year opposite to the thirteenth,' and of the year opposite to the thirteenth,' s.e. of the 25th and 14th years, and whose reign I have found to commence between (approximately) the 27th February and the 29th November A.D. 1190.3 If this should really be the case, the date, being of the 14th opposite to the 13th, se of the 27th year, would have to fall in either A.D. 1216 or A.D. 1217. It is actually correct for Wednesday, the 29th March A.D. 1217. This was the 5th day of the month of Mêsha, and on it the 5th tithi of the dark half of Chaitra) ended 9 h. 38 m., while the nakshatra was Müla, by the Brahma-siddhanta for 9 h. 12 m., according to Garga for 14 h. 27 m., and by the equal space system from 2 h. 38 m., after mean sunrise.
With this result, I would definitely assign the date to Jatavarman Kulasekhara, the time for the commencement of whose reign would be reduced by it to the period from (approximataly) the 30th Maroh to the 29th November A.D. 1190.
45.- In the Agastyêsvara temple at Tiruchchunai.5 1 olll Svasti ári [ll] Tiribuvanachchakkaravattiga! siri(bri)Kulai(la)[Sêgara ]deva[x]ku i2 y[&]ndı padiņra[ll]ora(ora) vadu Tula-nayar[ra] .. . [pakshat]tu ashtami3 yum Viyala-kkilama(mai)yam perra Pusattu nkļ.
"In the thirteenth year of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulasekharadeva, on the day of Pushya, which corresponded to a Thursday and to the eighth tithi of the . . . fortnight of the month of Tuls."
This date is in the same temple as the preceding date, and is also one c. the Tribhwanachakravartin Kulasekharadêya. It may therefore be reasonably assumed that here also Kulabékhara is identical with Jatavarman Kulasekhara. A date of that king's 13th year would be expected to fall in A.D. 1202 or A.D. 1203, but for either year the date would be quite incorrect.
My calculations have led me to suspect that the date may be one, not of the 13th, but of the 13th opposite the 13th year of Jațåvarman Kulasekhara, and that its equivalent may be Thursday, the 6th October A.D. 1216. This was the 10th day of the month of Tuld, and on it the nakshatra was Pushya, by the equal space system and according to Garga for 3 h.
No. 181 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1908.
The la of M a is entered below them of the. * See above, Vol. VI. Pp. 801 and 802, Noe. 1 and 3.
In the Pandya date No. 14, above Vol. VI. p. 807, Jagdvarman Sundara-Pandya I. is simply called the Tribhupanachakravartin Sundara-Pandyaddre. .No. 182 of the Government Epigraphint's collection for 1908.
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