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No. 12.)
DATES OF PANDYA KINGS.
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after moan sunrise at Lanka. Bat the nakshatra was Chitrå. It may be remarked that the nakshatra Uttarishādhå can never be coupled with Bhadrapada sudi 5, as required by the inscription.
TRIBHUVANACHAKRAVARTIN KULASEKHARA (A.D. 1979-80 to P).
89.-In the Tiruttaļisvara temple at Tirupputtur.1 1 [S]vasti [Sri] [11] [T]ribhavanachchakravattiga! Sri-Kulasekharade[varkne
y]ându 4 vadin=edi[ra]m=&[ndu Kar]kadaga-[nä]yarrəirubattelan-tiyadi Sapi-k2 [k]i[lam]aiyum perra Rosaņi-nāļ.
"In the year opposite the 4th year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulasekharadēva,- on the day of Rohini, which corresponded to a Saturday (and) to the twenty-seventh solar day of the month of Karkataka."
The only day between 1200 and 1500, which I found to correspond to the date of the ingeription, would be Saturday, the 30th July 1889 A.D.; it was the 27th solar Karkataka, (Śrāvana badi 10) and the nakshatra was Rohiņi. This king therefore would appear to have commenced reigning 1379-80 A.D.
In the years 1262 A.D., 23rd July, and 1475, 25th July, the 27th solar Karkataka fell on a Saturday and the nakshatra was the next after Rohiņi, viz. Mpigasiras; we need therefore take no account of these years.
[The alphabet in which the inscription is engraved shows that it must be older than A.D. 1200.-Ed.) JATAVARMAN TRIBHUVANACHAKRAVARTIN VIRA-PĀNDYA (A.D. 1286-1842 P).
90.-In the vilināthasvāmin temple at Tiruvilimilalai. 1 Svast[i] sri :- Kor-Chadapanmar Tirubuvanachohakkaravattiga! fri-Vira
Papdiyadovapko ya da 6 vadu drivada 2 [K]opi-näyarru parava-pa[k]shattu shatti(shthi)gum Volli-kliflamai]yum per
Malattu na!.
"In the 8th-sixth-year (of the reign) of king Jaţăvarman (alias) the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vira-Pāņdyadēve,- on the day of Mols, which corresponded to a Friday and to the sixth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Kany."
The date of this inscription corresponds to Friday, the 28th September 1809 A.D. On that day, the 6th tithi of the first fortnight of Asvina (Kanys) 4403 Kaliyuga ended 6 ghafikde after mean sunrise at Lanks and the nakshatra Mola was running till about 15 ghatikas atter mean sunrise.
01.-In the Tiruttaļīśvara temple at Tirupputtar. i fri-kd-Chohadaipapmar-ips Tribhuvanachohakravatti[ga]! fri-Vira-[P]Andiyadavarku
yår[da] 22[vada ]shabe-nå[y]rta [4]todiyam? pa[romapa]bahatta (dvi]tiyaiyam perra Ro[hi]ņi-n[&!).
1 No. 101 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1808 * No. 401 of the mme collection. . In the syllable ko, the i of the origa is corrected from tri. • Vadu is expressed by a flourish added to the figure 6. • No. 128 of the Madru Epigraphical collection for 1908. • Vadw is sloo expressed by rymbol.
The word tai is expressed by a symbol.
