Book Title: Epigraphia Indica Vol 11
Author(s): E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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________________ GOHARWA PLATES OF KARNADEVA. No. 18.] "In the 4[9]th year (of the reign) of king Jatavarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vira-Paṇḍyadēva, on the day of Anuradha, which corresponded to a Sunday, to the twelfth tithi of the first fortnight and to the 21st solar day of the month of Mithuna." 139 The date corresponds to Sunday, the 16th June 1842 A.D. On that day, at mean sunrise at Lanka, the 12th tithi of the first fortnight of Ashadha (Mithuna) and the nakshatra Anuradha were current, the former ending about 24 ghaṭikas, and the latter 45 ghaṭikäs after mean sunrise at Lanka. And the day actually was the 21st solar Mithuna. JATAVARMAN VIKRAMA-PANDYA. 95.-In the Tiruttalisvara temple at Tirupputtur.1 16 Svasti śr[i] [*] Ko-Chchadai panmar-ana Tr[i]bhuvanachchakravatt[i]gal éri-Vikrama-Pandiyadevarku yanda 8[vadi]n edir 14 avadu Dhanu-ravi selläninra Subhakiri-varusham 2 Sak-abdam 1344 měl pürvva-pakshattu tritigaiyum Buda-varamum perra Tiruvonatta 19 tědi 3 năļ. "In the 14th (year) opposite the 8th year (of the reign) of king Jatavarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vikrama-Pandyadeva, in the (cyclio) year Subhakrit, which was current after the (expiry of the) Saka year 1844, on the day of Sravana, which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the third tithi of the first fortnight (and) the 19th solar day (when) the Sun (was in) Dhanus.". This date apparently corresponds to Wednesday, 18th December 1422 A.D., the corresponding Jovian year of southern reckoning being Subhakrit. But the third tithi has wrongly been quoted for the second. For, on the calculated day which was the 19th solar Dhanus, the 2nd tithi of the first fortnight of Pausha (Dhanus) was current at sunrise at Lanka and so was the nakshatra Śravana. The third tithi began about 5 ghatikas after mean sunrise at Lanka, and the nakshatra Śravana ended about 52 ghatikas after sunrise. It would therefore appear that the current tithi has been quoted instead of the one which ended on that day. No. 13.-GOHARWA PLATES OF KARNADEVA. BY PROFESSOR E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.; HALLE (SAALE). These plates were found, whilst ploughing, in a field in an old fort at Goharwa, a village in the Manjhanpur tahsil of the Allahabad District. The finder was a Kewat. He states that his plough turned up the plates and broke the ring which fastened them together. The find was rescued from him by one Ramnath, a zamindar of Mawai Kalan, and produced first before the Collector, and then, by the Collector's directions, before Mr. E. A. H. Blunt, C.S., Sub-Divisional Officer, Karwi, Banda district, who sent the plates to Rai Bahadur Veukayya. I edit the inscription from two sets of ink-impressions received from Mr. Venkayya. No. 124 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1908. The syllables vadi are expressed by a flourish added to the figure 8. Bead Subhakrid. The word tädi is expressed by a symbol. These are two copper plates, resembling ordinary trays, which fit one into the other and form a compact box, with corresponding ring holes at the bottom of the first and at the top of the second plate. They were originally held together by a ring, in such a way that the T2

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