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No. 23.)
DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
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"In the 47th year of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulõttunga-Chāļadēva,-on the day of Satabhishaj which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the tenth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Rishabha." . This date is unreliable. In the 47th year of Kulottunga-Chola I the 10th kfishọa tithi of Vrishabha was current on Tuesday, May 9th A.D. 1116 (not on Wednesday), and on that Tuesday at mean sunrise the nakshatra current was Uttara Bhadrapada ; so that it was not possible for any moment of the Wednesday to be connected either with the nakshatra Satabhishaj or with the 10th kşishņa tithi. Satabhishaj had expired before mean sunrise on the previous Monday. Working for the 48th year of this king I find that in that year the 10th krishna tithi fell on Saturday, the 5th day of Vpishabha, the nakshatra current at mean sunrise being Púrva-Bhadrapada. The corresponding day in European reckoning was April 28th A.D. 1117.
It is incorrect for a possible 47th year of Kulottunga-Chola II, or of Kulottunga-Chola II).
VIKRAMA-CHOLA. 227.-In the Sāra-Paramēśvara temple at Tiruchchirai.1 1 Tribhuvanach ]chakravattiga! Sri-Vi[kki]ra[ma-Soladēva]īku yaņdu 5āvadu
Miduna-[n]āya[rru] apa [ra-pa]kshat[tu] tra2 [yode]siyum Viyala-kk[i]la[maiyum] perra Urošaņi-nāļ.
"In the 5th year of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vikrama-Chöļadēva,- on the day of Rõhiņi, which corresponded to a Thursday and to the thirteenth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Mithuna."
This date is unsatisfactory. Given that the accession day of this sovereign was, as settled by Professor Kielhorn (Ep. Ind., Vol. VII, p. 5), the 29th of June A.D. 1118, the date should correspond to a day in A.D. 1122 or 1123. In A.D. 1122 the 10th day of Mithuna was Sunday, June 4th, and on that day the 13th tithi of the second fortnight of Jyështha and the nakshatra Rohini were current at mean sunrise. The week-day stated in the inscription is, however, Thursday. Consequently I hesitate to accept it. Moreover, that June 4th would be in the king's 4th not 5th year.
For A.D. 1123 both week-day and nakshatra would differ from those stated in the original; the week-day of June 23rd, which was the day on which the 13th śukla tithi in Mithuna was current at mean sunrise, being Saturday, and the then current nakshatra being Mpigasiras.
Nor does the result agree with the given details for the 5th year of the king, on the supposition that his reign began, as originally set forward by Kielhorn, on 18th July A.D. 1108. Hence I can find no exact agreement in any case.
228. In the Māgāļēśvara temple at Tirumāļam. 1 la S[va]sti [śr]i [11*]Pi-mádu panara . . . . . . . . . . 3 Ko=3Pparakësa[r]ipanmar=āna Tri[buva]nachchakravattiga! fri-Vikrama. Soladēvapku ya[ndu]" 1[3]āvadu Ani-masattu Tingat-kkilamai perra
TiruvÖpamum tr[i]tigaiyum=ana nāļ.
* No. 621 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909. • No. 97 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1910. • The syllable ppa is written as a group.
• The syllable du is perhaps written a group. doadw is denoted also by an incomplete floorish added immediately after the figure 13.
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