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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XI.
"In the 1[3]th year of the reign) of king Parakēsarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, tho glorious Vikrama-Choladēva,-on the day which was the third tithi ud (the day) of (the nakshatra) Sravana, which corresponded to & Monday of the month of Ani."
This date is correct in all respects for the 13th year of the reign of Vikrama-Chola as fixed by Professor Kielhorn, who established the day of the king's accession as June 29th A.D. 1118. It corresponds to Monday, June 15th A.D. 1131, the fourteenth year of the reign beginning June 29th of that year and June 15th being still in the thirteenth year. The date proves that the reign could not have begun before June 16th A.D. 1118.
On that Monday, June 15th A.D. 1131, the 3rd tithi of the second fortnight of solar Ani (or Mithuna), was current at mean sunrise, as was also the nakshatra Sravana.
KULOTTUNGA-CHOLA II.
229.-In the Māgālēśvara temple at Tirumāļam.? 1 11 11 6 Svasti eri [ll]Pämannu padumam . . . . . . . . 4 .
. . KövIr[ajakosaripaņmar-ins Tribhuvanachakravarttiga! éri-Kulo]ttunga-Söladóvarku yanda 11 pa [di]n-ongåvadu Danu-nayarsu irandan-diyadiyum Sani-kkilamaiyum perra
[Pā]śatti-[na!). "In the 11th-eleventh-year of the reign) of king Rajakēsarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottunga-Chöļadēva,-on the day of Pushya, which corresponded to a Saturday and to the second solar day of the month of Dhanus."
The date regularly corresponds to Saturday, November 27th A.D. 1143, which was the second day of the solar month Dhanus, and on which day at mean sunrise the moon was in the nakshatra Pushya by all systems. This day fell in the eleventh year of Kulottunga Chola II, which began, as at present found by me (Vol. X, p. 138, No. 190), between 26th March and 14th July A. D. 1143, his accession having taken place on some day between those dates in A.D. 1133.
The stated date would be incorrect for the eleventh year of Kulottunga-Chola I, in which year the 2nd Dhanus fell on a Thursday (November 26 A.D. 1080), with Bharani as the nakshatra current at sunrise. And the record cannot belong to the reign of the third king of that name whose title was Parakosarivarman.
PARAKESARIVARMAN VIRARAJENDRA-CHOLA (KULOTTUNGA II.)
330.-In the Kailasanatha temple at Ālambakkam. 1 Svasti sri [ll] Payal väytta valam peruga ... 11 . . . . . . . . . . Ko-Pparakosa12 rispanma)r-ina Tiribuvanachchakkaravattiga? 13 sri-[Vi]rarajëndira-[Solad][va]rku ya14 pdu añjäva(du Mē]sha-näyarru pūrvva15 [pa]kshatta *pra[dha]m[iyu] [Sa]ni-kkilamaiyum pe16 18 Aśvati-nal.
1 No. 109 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1910.
No. 783 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909. • There is, in the original, letter erased between the syllables ra and va. • Read prathamaiyum.
