Book Title: Epigraphia Indica Vol 10
Author(s): Sten Konow, V Venkayya
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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________________ No. 26.] DANAVULAPADU PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF SRIVIJAYA. 147 "In the 8th year (of the reign) of king Māravarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulasēkharadēva,-on the day of Svāti, which corresponded to a Tuesday, to the . . . . . [tithi] of the second fortnight and to the 11th solar day of the month of Dhanus." This date is incorrect when worked for 1275 or 1276 A.D., the 8th year of Māravarman Kulasekhara I.; and it is also incorrect for A.D. 1321, the 8th year of Måravarman Kalasakhara II. In A.D. 1275 tbe llth Dhanus was a Saturday. In A.D. 1276 it was & Sunday. In A.D. 1321 it corresponded with Monday, December 7th. In each case the corresponding tithi belongs to the dark fortnight, but the nakshatras were respectively Pushya, Jyėshtha and Punarvasa. As to the last (1321) Professor Kielhor's No. 28 (above, Vol. VI. pp. 312-13) may be compared with it. I have proved its correctness. That date, which was in the 8th year of Msavarman Kulasekhara II., corresponded with 14th November A.D. 1321 which was 23 days earlier than December 7th. The nakshatra was Uttara-Phalguni, and it is plain that on a day 23 days later the nakshatra could not possibly be Svāti. The date would be correct in all respects for the 18th solar day of Dhanus, Tuesday, December 15, A.D. 1321, when, at mean sunrise, the nakshatra was Svāti and when the 10th tiths of the dark fortnight wus current. No. 26.-DANAVULAPADU PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF SRIVIJAYA. BY H. KRISHNA SASTRI, B.A. The subjoined record is engraved on the three faces of one of the Jaina pillars, discovered by the Superintendent, Archæological Survey, Madras, at Dānavulapadu (in the Jammalmadugu täluka of the Cuddapah District) in 1903, when he made extensive excavations there, on the sandy bank of the river Pennar. The results of Mr. Rea's excavations are published in the Director General's Annual Report for 1905-6, pp. 120 to 127, which include a complete description with a half-tone picture (fig. 7) of the sculptures in three panels on one of the broad faces of the pillar (p. 124) and an English translation of the inscription on two of its narrow faces (p. 124 f.) By way of supplementing wbat has been already stated by Mr. Rea, I append, with the kind permission of the editor, a full text of the record, which is not given in the Annual and the translation of a portion cf the inscription, which is also omitted there, by some mistake, Since writing the above Mr. Vonkayya has informed me that the quoted day of the solar montb Dhanus may be, not "11" but" 19." On this basis I bave again examined the date. It is not correct for the reign of M. Kulasėk bara I For A.D. 1321 the eigbth year of M. Kulasekhara II., the details would be correct for the 18th, but not for the 19th Dhanus. At moan sunrise on Tuesday, December 16, A.D. 1321, which was the 18th day of Dhanus, the tenth tithi of the second fortnight expired 3 h. 16 m. aftor,mean vunrise; the nakshatra being at mean suprise, Svāti by the equal space system. It ended 6 h. 18 m. lster by that system. But by Garga it bad ended 5 n. 54 m., and by the Brahma-Siddhauta 10 h. 2 m. before mes suprise, Visakhi being current at that moment. On the 19th Dhanus Visakba was current by all systems. I think the date is probably genuine, but that the 19th of the solar month was quotes in error for the 18th. No. 833 of the Madras Erigraphical collection for 1905. The portion omitted in the Annual is the third face" (11. 44 to 67) of the pillar. On p. 125, however, Mr. Res adds in continuation the translation of a later inscription of the 14th century A.D. in the passage commencing: "The second reads . . . . . prosperity, and connects it with the subjoined pillar rocard which is at least 4 centuries earlier. It niny be noted that the later record translated by Mr. Res, was also din. covered in the same locality (No. 336 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1905). 02

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