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Ashādha fell on Sunday. Thinking that a mistake might have been made in the fortnight I tested the 11th tithi of the dark fortnight in both months, finding the week-days Sunday in adhika Ashādha and Monday in nija Ashādha. In the latter case, the 11th tithi of the dark fortnight had expired 3 h. 45 m. before mean sunrise on the Tuesday.
The result of the examination of Nos. 186, 187, 188, 189, is to show that the date of the accession of Kulottunga-Choda II. lies between March 28th and July 14th, A.D. 1133.
This leads me to reconsider the four possible dates given to No. 166 (above, p. 125 f.). That date was in this king's eighth year; and while (having that date alone to go by) I stated my opinion that it corresponded to the third of my results, in which date I could find no fault in the elements, vis. Friday, February 4th, A.D. 1144, I now think that the second of my results is the true one, namely, Friday, February 7th, A.D. 1141. Its defect lay in the fact that the quoted nakshatra, Sravana, was one which had expired three hours before mean sunrise on that day, and which could not therefore properly be connected with the Friday, Dhanishtha being the correct nakshatra. But otherwise the result showed that the combination of elements on that day was highly suspicious, and I am of opinion that this fixture may now be accepted, and that the framers of the inscription had made a mistake in their calculation of the nakshatra. February 7th 1141 A.D. would fall in this king's 8th year. The mention of the Saka year in combination with the regnal year in the four regular dates given above may be accepted, for the present at least, as determining the data of accession of Kulottunga-Chola II.
It follows that March 24th, A.D. 1143, the date of the Chelldr plates (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 56 ff.; above, Vol. VII, pp. 9-10) fell in this king's tenth year.
No. 25.-DATES OF PANDYA KINGS. BY ROBERT SEWELL, I.C.S. (RETD.), M.R.A.S.
A.-MARAVARMAN SUNDARA-PANDYA I.
68. - In the Nägēśvaramudaiyar temple at Kallaďakurichchi. 1 .. ... Sri-ko Mürapapmar-iņa Tiri[u]vagasak karavadiga! sri-Sonäda
koņdaraliya sri-Sandara-P[a]pdiyadevark-[i]yağda 20 bad ]ā vadin 2 edirām=ārdu Kumba-nāyikru pårvva-pakshatta ágān-diyadi[yu]m Viyala
kkilamaiyum p[e]rra Sadaiyatta ná).
"In the year opposite the 20th year of the reign) of the glorious king Māravarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pāņdyadēva, who was pleased to take the prosperous Chola country,--on the day of Satabhishaj, which corresponded to a Thursday and to the sixth solar day of the first fortnight of the month of Kumbha."
This inscription proves that the Pandya king Māyavarman Sundars-Pandya I., whose reign has been determined by the late Professor Kielhorn to have begun between the 29th March and the 4th September A.D. 1216, reigned to a later date than has been previously supposed. The latest date hitherto verified of this king is, I believe, the 19th February, A.D. 1235 (above, Vol. VI. p. 303). This appears in an inscription at Tinnevelly. The present inscription, in a temple in the Tinne velly District, bears a date corresponding to January 29th, 1287 A.D.. Thursday.
No. 96 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907. • Readvattigal.
Two inscriptions at Kalladakurichchi which give his 22nd year are mentioned by Mr. Venkayy (Nos. 107 and 108 of 1907, and Annual Report for 1907-8, paragraph 43)
