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56 m., and by the Brahma-siddhanta for 1 h. 58 m., after mean sunrise. The only difficulty is, that by our Tables the 8th tithi of the [dark] half (of Karttika) had ended 0 h. 26 m. before mean sunrise of the Thursday, and that therefore we should have expected the writer to quote the 9th tithi, not the 8th.
B.-MARAVARMAN SUNDARA-PANDYA I. 46.- In the Sundarêsvara temple at Madura.! 120,.... $r-kó MA121 capagmar=apa Trabhuvaga122 chobak karavattiga! Sona129 da kondu Mudigo(o)124 daslapurattu virar=&v&125 *bhishegamam vijaiya[r=8126 *va] bhishegamum pa[n]ņi127 [y-a]ruļiya sri-Sundara-Pâpdi128 yadé[varku] yảndu 1. 129 5vadu Dhanu-nâyarra &130 para-pakshattu trayoda131 siyum Sevvåy-kkila132 maiyum perra (Vi]ś&
133 gattu [n][!]. “In the 15th year of the reign) of the glorious king Måravarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pandyadêve, who took the Chola country and was pleased to perform the anointment of heroes and the anointment of victors at Mudigondabolapuram, on the day of Visakha, which corresponded to a Tuesday and to the thirteenth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Dhanus."
I have previously found that Måravarman Sundara-Påndya I. commenced to reign between (approximately) the 29th March and the 4th September A.D. 1216. With that commencement of his reign this date of the 15th year regularly corresponds to Tuesday, the 3rd December A.D. 1230, which was the 8th day of the month of Dhanus, and on which the 13th tithi of the dark half (of Margasira) commenced 4 h. 53 m., while the nakshatra was Visakha, by the equal space system and according to Garga for 10 h. 30 m., and by the Brahma-siddhanta for 5 h. 55 m., after mean sunrise.
0.- MARAVARMAN KULASEKHARA I.
47.- In the Tyagarajasvimin temple at Tiruvårør. 1 Svast[i] śr[i] [11] [K8 MA]rapan[mar Tirubu]vanachchakkaravattiga! eri
Kulasegarade[va]rkku yandu 40vadu Miņa-nayarra apa[ra]-pakshatta
dasamiyum Tingal-kkila[m]aiyam perra Tiruvonattu na! .
..i-polávadu Sakadhi(ti)tam 1229. "In the 40th year (of the sign) of king Måravarman (alias) the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulasekharadeva, - on the day of Sravana, which corresponded to a Monday and to the tenth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Mina. . . . .
this day (ie. year) corresponds to Saka 1229 expired."
1 No. 61 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1906. • The d of Md is engraved at the beginning of the next line. Read Tribhuo.
• Read abhithégao. * See above, Vol. VI. p. 314. No. 561 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1904.
