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No. 11.]
DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
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date. Assuming a mistake in the month, vis. Makara for Dhanus, we get Tuesday, the 18th December, which corresponds to the given tithi (ending 9 ghatikās after mean sunrise), but the nakshatra was Rėvati (beginning 13 ghafikās after mean sunrise). If we calculate for the following year, the 21st instead of the 20th, the date comes out right in all details. It corresponds to Monday, the 5th January 1237 A.D. On that day, the 7th tithi of the month Makara ended 14 ghatikās after, and the nakshatra Asvini began 13 ghatikas before mean gunrise. This is probably the equivalent of the date, though it is rather surprising that the number of the regnal year should have been erroneously quoted.
213.-In the Vilināthasvāmin temple at Tiruviļimilalai. 1 Svasti eri:- T[i]rubu[va]nachoha (cha)kravartti[gal sri-R]ājarajadēvarku [y]andu
20 ira[bad][va]du Rishabha-[n]Xyar[ru] par[vva]-pakshattu dasa[m]i[y]um
[V]e[lli]2-kkilamai yum pjer[ra] Uttsira]ttu (nal). "In the 20th-twentieth-year of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Rājarājadēva, - on the day of Uttara-Phalguni, which corresponded to a [Friday] and to the tenth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Rishabha."
The date probably corresponds to Friday, the 18th May 1238 A.D. On that day, the 9th tithi of the bright fortnight of the month Rishabha (Jyaishtha) ended 12 ghatikis, and the nakshatra Uttara-Phalguni 14 ghatikās after mean sunrise at Lanka. It appears therefore that, in the original date, the tenth tithi has been erroneously quoted instead of the ninth. Calculating Mēsha instead of Rishabha, we find that the 10th tithi of the bright fortnight ended on Thursday, the 17th April 1236 A.D., 40 ghatikās after mean sunrise, and the nakshatra Uttara-Phalguni began only 50 ghagikis after mean sunrise. If this date be the right equivalent, we have to assume that the month as well as the week-day are erroneously quoted in the original.
214.-In the Vilināthasvāmin temple at Tiruvili milalai. 1 Svast[i] br[i] [11] Tir[i]bavanachaka(va]ttigaléri-Irājaïrājadēva[r]ku yandu
21 vadu Kumba)-n[@]yangu apara-pakshattu ēk[s]dasamiyum Sap[i]-kkilam[aiyu]m
perra Mülatta 2 nă!.
"In the 21st year of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Rējarājadēva, - on the day of Müla, which corresponded to a Saturday and to the seleventh] tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Kumbha."
The date corresponds to Saturday, the 24th January 1987 A.D. But the month Kumbha has erroneous been quoted instead of Makara. For, it is impossible that in Kumbha (Phalguna) te Ilth tithi of the dark fortnight should coincide with Mula ; and besides, in that year Phalgunaytedi 11 was a Monday (or possibly a Sunday, for the end of the tithi fell very near gunrise), but certainly not a Saturday. But on the day stated above, the 11th tithi of the dark fortnight of Makara ended about 18 ghafikar after mean sunrise, and the nakshatra Māla ended about 27 ghafikas after it.
No. 407 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1908. · The space between and kki is just enough for bolli and not for fevray (Tuesday).
No. 410 of the Madras Epigraphioal collection for 1908. • Read chakravartio.
Rend - Rajarajao, • The syllable mi is written below the line. The tithi intended may have been either akadafi or dafami. But No. 209 above, which is identically the same date, gives ikadati,
