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DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
180.-In the Kailasanatha temple at Rishiyür.1 1 Tiribuvaṇachchakkara(va]ttiga! Ma[du]raiyum fla[mu][m] [Karavū]rum Påndiyan
mudi-ttalaiyum koudu virar-abishekamum vijaiyar-[a]bhishēkamum pann[i]yaralina T[i]ribavapaviradėvarku yandı mu[P]pattu-mügrävada Minaniyarru apara-pakshattu trayoda[si]yum [Ti]ngal-k[i]lamaiyam perra
Pürattādi-na!. “In the thirty-third year of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, Tribhuvanaviradēva, who took Madurai, Ilam, Karuvür and the crowned head of the Paņdya and was pleased to perform the anointment of heroes and the anointment of victorg.-on the day of Purva-Bhadrapada, which corresponded to a Monday and to the thirteenth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Mina."
The day corresponds to Monday, March 14th, A.D. 1211, which was the twentieth day of the month Mina. On that day, the thirteenth tithi of the second fortnight of Phålguna ended 15 h. 18 m. after mean sunrise. By the system of Garga tbe nakshatra, which was ParvaBhadrapadå at mean sunrise, ended 18 h. 34 m. later; and by the Brahma-siddhanta the same nakshatra wns current at mean sunrise, ending 19 h. 17 m. later. But by the equal space system Satabhishnj was current at mean sunrise, aud Pärva-Bhadrapada began 6 h, 26 m. after that moment, or about 26 m. after midday. This seems to show, either that the nakshatra was calculated by one of the first two systems, or that the calculators worked out the nakshatra raling at the moment of the event recorded, which, if it took place on that day between about 12-26 P... and 3-18 .M., would have coincided with the thirteenth tithi of the second fortnight and with the nakshatra Purva-Bhadrapada.
181. - In the Omkārēśvara templo at Kuttālam. 1 Hara : 6 Svasti fri: (Pu]yal väyttu . ...Tiribuvaqachchakkara(vattiga Madurniy[u]
m I la[ma]m Pandiyan mudi-ttalaiya[m] k[O]ndarulliya sri-Ku]lot(tu]hga-Soladė. 2 vayku yaudu 35[A]vadu Mina-nayarru purvva-paksha[t]tu Sadatthiyum Sevviy.
kkila[m* )ai[yu*]m porra K[a]tt[i]gai-[n]ál. "In the 35th your (of the reign of the emperor of the three worlds, the [glorious) Kulottunga-Chöļadēva, who was pleased to take Madurai, Ilam (Ceylon) and the crowned head of the Pandya, on the day of Ksittikā, which corresponded to a Tuesday and to the fourth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Mina.
The nakshatra in this date seems to have been wrongly calculated. In the thirty-fifth year of Kulottunga-Chola III., the fourth tithi of the first fortnight of Pbalguns was current at mean sunrise of Tuesday, 26th February, A.D. 1213, and expired 8 h. 30 m. later. The day was the fifth of Mina. At mean sunrise on that day the nakshatra Ksittiks was not current by any bystem ; but by that of Garga it began 6 h, 2 m. later, by the Brahma-siddhanta 5 h. 34 m. later. and by the oqual space system 18 h. 10 m. later. Krittika, therefore, coincided with the fourth tithi of the first fortnight during 2 h. 28 m. by Garga, and by the Brahma-siddhårta during 2h. 56 m. in the middle of the day of that Tuesday. But by the equal space system it began when the fifth tithi was carrent. I am satisfied, however, that the date is correct, but that the nakshatra
1 No. 476 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907.
No. 480 ct the same collection.
* Karuvür, which figures among the conquests of the king in the two preceding inscriptions, seeros to be omitted bere.
