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country, on a Monday which corresponded to (the day of) Punarvasu, the first tithi of the first fortnight (and) to the 14th solar day of the month of Ani."
This is the latest date yet found of this king. The date is regular for Monday, 9th June, A.D. 1309, and irregular for A.D. 1307 or 1308. On 9th June, A.D. 1309, which was the fourteenth solar day of Ani (or Mithuna) and a Monday, the first tithi of the bright fortnight of lunisolar Ashadha ended 14 h. 14 m. after sunrise. The nakshatra Punarvasu by the equal space system began, on that day, at 6 h. 6 m. after sunrise and lasted the rest of the day. By the system of Garga and by the Brahma-siddhanta it lasted all day.
The inscription proves that the king's reign could not have begun before 10th June 1268, and gives us as the limit of possible accession the period June 10th to June 27th, 1288 A.D.
D.
JATAVARMAN SUNDARA-PANDYA II.
1 Svasti sri [1]
74.-In the Saumyanathasvamin temple at Nandalur.1 Ko-Chchaḍavarmmar-aga Tri[bhu]vanachchakka[ra]va[r]ttigal śri-Sundara-Papḍyadevarku yan[da] 10avadu Vyaya-samvarsarattu2= [T]tula-nayarru-ppürvva-pakshattu dva
2 dadiyam Tingat-kkfillamai perra Sadayatta nål.
"In the 10th year (of the reign) of king Jaṭavarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pandyadeva,-on the day of Satabhishaj, which corresponded to a Monday and to the twelfth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Tuls of the (cyclic) year Vyaya."
This date is correct in every respect except perhaps in the matter of the regnal year. It belongs to the reign of Jatavarman Sundara-Pandya II., in whose reign occurred the year Vyaya. There was no such year in the reign of Jaṭavarman Sundara-Pandya I., which lasted from April, A.D. 1251 till at least July 19, A.D. 1261, that being the last date we have at present of him.
In the cyclic year Vyaya, the second solar day of Tula corresponded to Monday, September 30, A.D. 1286, On that day the twelfth tithi of luni-solar Asvina, which was current at mean sunrise, ended 22 h, 54 m. later; the nakshatra Satabhishaj was current by the equal space system for 10 h. 49 m. after mean sunrise, but by the unequal space systems it had expired shortly before sunrise. I have summarised below the state of our knowledge regarding the accession of this king. The date in question, if the regnal year is correct, fixes the king's accession on or later than 1st October 1276; but this contradicts the results of some other inscriptions. The regnal year may have been wrongly given as 10, instead of 11.
75.-In the Saumyanathasvamin temple at Nandalur,3
1 [Sva]sti sri [*] Ko-[Chcha]a [parma]r-ana Tribhuvanachcha [kravartti]ga[1] śriSanda]m-Pandyadavarkku yan[da]
2 [15]avadu Viro[dhi]-samvat[sa]rattu Kumba-nayarru på[rvva-pa] kshattu dasamiyum
Tingal-'kilamayum
3 perra Palparp isattu nāļ.
1 No. 592 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907.
Read -sareatza".
No. 590 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907.
[The regnal year may also be read as 13.-Ed.] If we could be certain that 13' is the correct reading
we should have this king's accession limited to the period February 21st to March 14th, A.D. 1277, and the inscription would be very important.
⚫ Bend -kilamaiyum.
