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No. 24.]
DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
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the nakshatra Ardra was curront, ending (and Punarvasu beginning) 11 h. 36 m. later. But by Garga and the Brahma-siddhanta Panarvagu was current on that Sunday at mean sunrise, baying began by the former 31 m., and by the latter 2 h. 6 m., before that moment. The date is five days earlier than No. 173 above.
178.-In the Panchanadēśvara temple at Māyavaram. 1 -Svasti sr[i] [] [Tri]bhuvaņachchakkaravar [t]2 tiga! Maduraiyam fla[muja-Ga3 [ruvūrum Pán]disya], [ma]di-tta[lai]ya4 []-goņdaruliya (sri]-Kulot(tu). 5 [ga]-80[la]dēvarkku yapda (25)6 vad[u] Magara-[n]a[yadaru P[a]r[va-paksha]tta sa[du]r7 [tteši] . . . . . . . . .
8 Pu[nar]pusa[t]tu [n]å!. "In the [25]th year of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottunga-Choladēva, who was pleased to take Madurai, Ilam (Ceylon), (Karuvur) and the crowned head of the Pandya,on the day of Punarvasu . . . . . . . . . . [fourteenth tithi] of the first fortnight of the month of Makara."
This is precisely the same date as the last, and it is barely possible that it might be regular if the original contained the week-day “Sanday''; but this is unlikely, since the nakshatra Punarvasu could only be connected with the Sanday by the systems of Garga and the Brahmasiddhanta ; and then only for 31 m. before mean sunrise on the Monday by the former, and for 2 h. 6 m. by the letter. It is far more likely that the day was Monday, December 30th, A.D 1202, and that the tithi should have been entered as the fifteenth.
177.-In the Pañchanadēgvara temple at Māyavaram. 1 Su[sti](svasti) śr[i] [U*] T[iri]b[a]vagasak ka[rava]ttsiga! Madaraiyam] I. 2 laman-Garava [ru]m Paņdiyan muļi-ttalaiyun-[go]pda3 [ruliya sri )-Kulottunga-So[ladeva4 zku y]āņda 25[va]da Maga[ra-nāyarra)= 5 ppärva-pakshatta sadurt[tesiyum Tinga] - 6 !-kilamaiyum perra P[u]ņarpusattu n
7 a!. * In the 25th year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulõttunga-Choladēva, who was pleased to take [Madurai), Ilam (Ceylon), Karuvir and the crowned head of the Pandya, on the day of Punarvasu, which corresponded to a [Monday] and to the fourteenth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Makara."
The same remarks apply to this as to the preceding two dates. They are all the same dates and are recorded on the walls of the same temple.
178.-In the Saumyanāthasvāmin temple at Nandalür. 1 Jayanti ....... ... Maduraiyum Pandiyan' [mudi]-ttalaiyun
gondaral[i]ya T[i]r[ibuvaņa]chchakravattiga! Sri-Ku [ljottunga-Soladava[x]k[n 2 ya]odu 3[1]åvad=āņa Suk(la)-samvatsa[ra]ttu apara-pakshatta (pra]thamailyun
Jev[vlay-kkilamaiyan-Jodi[yu]m perra Sittirai-vishuvin podu.
1 No. 883 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907. ? Line 7 is very badly damaged and it is not possible to make out the week day. : No. 880 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907. • No. 582 of the same collection.
