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No. 11.]
DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
4 mar=āna
[Ti*]ribuvanachchakkara [ va]ttiga!
śr[i]-Virarajendra-Śoladevarkku yaṇḍu ārā valda na Simha-nayarru apara-pakshattu navamiyum Sani-kkilamaiyum perra [Mri]ga
[1]rsha[tta
]).
"In the time (na?) of the sixth year (of the reign) of king 'Rajakēsarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Virarajendra-Chōladēva, on the day of Mrigasirsha, which corresponded to a Saturday and to the ninth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Simha."
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I take the date to correspond to Saturday, the 10th September 1183 A.D. For, on this day the nakshatra Mrigasirsha began at about 4 ghatikās after mean sunrise at Lanka. The day, however, was not the 9th, but the 7th tithi of the dark fortnight of Simha (Bhadrapada), that tithi having ended about 16 ghațikās after mean sunrise. The result shows that the word navamiyum of the original date should be altered to saptamiyum (or perhaps into ashṭamiyum, if that tithi was intended with which the given nakshatra mainly coincided, or in which it ended, as was the case in Nos. 197 and 199).
203.-In the Viļināthasvamin temple at Tiruvilimilalai.
1 [Svasti ér[D] Tribava achchakka[va]ttiga! ]-Kulo[t]tu[4]ga-[8]ladi [va]rku y[a]nḍu ēlā
2 vada Magara-na [ya]rru pū [rvva]-pak [shat]tu satudasi[y]u Viyala-kkila [mai]yum perza Paparpaatti-[]).
"In the seventh year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottunga-Chōladēva,-on the day of Punarvasu, which corresponded to a Thursday and to the fourteenth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Makara."
The date intended seems to be Wednesday, the 16th January 1185. For, on that day the 14th tithi of the bright fortnight of the month Makara (Magha) ended about 45 ghatikās after mean sunrise, and the nakshatra Punarvasu ended about 14 ghatikas after mean sunrise. The week-day however was Wednesday, and not Thursday, as given in the original date, apparently by a mistake.
204. In the Viļināthasvamin temple at Tiruvilimilalai.+
1 Svasti ér[1] [*] [Payal và][y]tta valla] [pera]ga [*] Tribavanachchakkaravatt[i]gal Maduraiyam Pa[n]diyan mudittalai[y]u-good-arulips Kulotta-[8]aladóvar[k]ku Lykuda padigagavadu
2 K[u]mba-nayarru pūrvva-pakshattu [pañja]miyum Velli-kkilamai [y]um Irrati-nal.
1 Kulottunga III. bears the surname Parakesarivarman in his other inscriptions.
2 No. 386 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1908.
No. 418 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1908.
Between ga and tri there is some space which may have contained a sign of punctuation
śi
"In the sixteenth year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottunga-Chōladēva, who was pleased to take Madurai and the crowned head of the Pandya, on the day of Revati, which corresponded to a Friday and to the [fifth tithi] of the first fortnight of the month of Kumbha."
Read chakravarttigal.
perra
The date corresponds to Friday, the 28th January 1194 A.D., the 5th tithi of the bright fortnight of the month Kumbha ending about 54 ghatikās after mean sunrise of that day, and the nakshatra Revati ending about 15 ghatikās after mean sunrise. As the tithi might be an
