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is wrongly quoted as Krittikä when it should have been Bharani. Amongst the thirty-six dates of this reign pablished by Kielhorn, there are ten instances of such mistakes, three being mistakes in nakshatras.
F.-RAJARAJA III. 182.- In the Mayuranāthasvāmin temple at Māyavaram. 1 (Sva]st[i] śr[i] [ll] T[iru]buvaņaśark ka[ra] (chakra)va[tti]ga! śr[i--Rā]jară2 jadēvarku [y]ándu padi[n]nālāvada (padinālāvada) Tali-[n]āyarru 3 [amn ]ra(apara)-pakshattu tři[ti]yaiyam [N]ayarru-kk[i]lamaiya[m] per[ra] 4 [U]rob[i]pi-!.
" In the fourteenth year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Rājarājadēva, on the day of Rõhiņi, which cerresponded to a Sunday and to the third tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Tulä.”
This date regularly corresponds to Sunday, October 7th, A.D. 1229, and the tenth day of Tula, in the fourteenth year of Rajaraja III. On that day, the third tithi of the second fortnight of Aśvina expired 5 h. 23 m. after mean sunrise, while the nakshatra which was current at that moment was Rohiņi by all systems. It expired, by the equal space system and by Garga, 20 h. 31 m., and by the Brahma-siddhanta 19 h. 25 m. after mean sunrise.
183.- In the Saumyanāthasvāmin templo at Nandalür.3 1 Syasti Sri [] Rajarajadēvarka yanda [22] 2 avad-apa Homalambi-samvassa (samvatsaratta-kku3 [m]bha-näyatru apara-pakshatta shashtiyum Sani4 kkilamaiyam petra Sodi-na! 13 .
I-ddēvarku [2]4 avad[u] 14 Vikári-samvarsa(samvatsa)rattu-Ttula-[naya)15 Ir-apara-pakshattu tritiyaiyun-Dingat16 kilamaiyum perra Mpigasirshattu nā
17 ! "In the [22]nd year of the reign) of Rajarajadēva, which was the (cyclio) year Hēmalamba, on the day of Sväti which corresponded to a Saturday and to the sixth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Kumbha ..on the day of Msigaśirsha, which corresponded to a Monday and to the third tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Tula of the year Vikārin (which corresponded to) the [2]4th (year) of the same king."
The first of these dates corresponds to Saturday, February 6th, A.D. 1238, which was the fourteenth day of Kumbha. At mean sunrise on that day the sixth tithi of the second fortnight of Mägba, which had begun 30 m. earlier, was carrent. By the equal-space system the nakshatra Svati was current, ending 12 h.55 m., and by Garga also, ending 43 m., after mean sunrise. But by the Brahma-siddhanta Visakhā was current, it having begun 3 h. 25 m. before mean sunrise.
The date was in the twenty-second year of Rajaraja III.
No. 372 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907. • The length of rå appears to be corrected by the engraver from ks. : No. 596 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907.
• In the Annual Report for 1907-08, p. 49, I read the date as the [2]3rd year. On examining the original again it seems to me that the date is probably the [22]nd year.
