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No. 12.)
DATES OF PANDYA KINGS.
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I have calculated the date for both Jatavarman Sandara Pandya I and II. ; in both cases, the result is not satisfactory. I give them here. In 1258 A.D. Pausha was an expunged month; if we assume that sudi 8, falling in solar Pausha, was intended, we find that it ended 4 ghatikās after mean sunrise at Lankä on Thursday, the 5th December, and the nakshatra Rēvati began only 15 ghatikās after sunrise. Therefore, the date would be right, if the eighth tithi had been wrongly quoted instead of the ninth.- Now assuming the king to be the second of his name, the date would fall in 1292 A.D. The calculation proves that on Friday, the 19th December 1292 A.D., the 9th tithi ended a few ghalikis before the end of the day according to all Siddhāntas, and the 8th tithi ended on Thursday. But as the nakshatra Revati ended about 5 ghalikās before sunrise of Friday, it could not have been coupled with that day.
TRIBHUVANACHAKRAVARTIN SUNDARA-PĀNDYA (A.D. 1237-88 to ?).
84.-In the Tiruttaļiśvara temple at Tirupputtur.! 1 III o Svasti śri [ll*) .. ...... . Tribhuva[na]chchakravattiga!
sri-Sandara-Pandiyadēvarku yandu 2 ndāvad[u] Dhanu-nayarru 11 ndi[ya]d[i]
yum pūrvva-pakshattu daśamiyum 2 Bndhan-kilamai ya]m [p]erra Aśvati-nāļ.
“In the 2nd year of the reign) of the emperor of the throe worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pandyadēva, on the day of Asvini, which corresponded to a Wednosday, to the tenth tithi of the first fortnight and to the 11th solar day of the month of Dhanus."
Between 1200 and 1500 A. D. there is but one day which fulfils all requirements of the date of our inscription, vis. 4340 Kaliyuga, Pausha sudi 10, which corresponds to Wednesday, the 7th December 1939 A.D. On that day, at mean sunrise at Lanka, the 10th tithi of the first fortnight of the month Dhanus (Pausha) was running, and ended abont 42 ghatikās afterwards, and the nakshatra Aśvini had began 7 ghatikas before mean sunrise at Lanka and ended about 49 ghatikās after it. Accordingly, this king began to reign in 1237-38 A.D.
JATAVARMAN SUNDARA-PĀNDY A II. (?)
(A.D. 1275-76 to 1290). 85.--In the Vilināthasvāmin temple at Tiruvilimilalai.? 1 Svasti (sri 1l] K[0]r-Chadai panjmar T[i]ru[b]avanachchakka (ravajtt[ign! sr[i
Sulodara-P[andilyade(va]rku yao(do 9]vadu Tula näyar[r]u [apura"-pal:shattu
saptamiyum [N]ayarra-kkila2 maiyum per[ra P]āsattu nä!
“In the [9]th year of the reign) of king Jaţāvarman (alias) the emporor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pāņdyadēva,- on the day of Pushya, which corresponded to a Sunday and to the seventh tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Tulā."
The week-day does not come out right for the 9th year of either Jatā varman SundaraPåndya I. or II. I have calculated the years 1259, 60, 61 and 1283, 84, 85 A.D.
1 No. 130 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1908. * No. 414 of the same collection for 1908. • The punctuation after fri is not distinct; the existing traces de to point to the reading On.
