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No. 23.]
"In the fifth year (of the reign) of king Parakesarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Virarājēndra-Chōladēva,-on the day of Asvini, which corresponded to a Saturday and to the first tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Masha."
DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
Virarajendra (Kulottunga III) having come to the throne between the 6th and 8th July A.D. 1178 (Vol. IV, p. 266; VIII, p. 264, No. 108) the month of Mosha in his fifth year must fall in A.D. 1183, and the details of the date are perfectly correct for Saturday, March 26th A.D. 1183, which day was the 2nd solar day of Mesha. On that day the 1st tithi of the first fortnight of adhika-Vaisakha was current at mean sunrise, the moon being then in the nakshatra Asvini.
231.-In the Vyaghrapādēśvara temple at Siddhalingamaḍam.1
1 Svasti śri [*]Puyal väyttu
4.
Kō-Pparakösariparmar-ana
T[r]ib[hu] vanachchakkaravattigal śri-Kulottunga-Soladevarkku yanḍu 9vadu Viruchchiga-n[ay]arru
irubat
5 tunalan-diyadiyum pārvva-pakshattu saptamiyum Viyala-kkilamaiyum perra Éadaiyatta nal.
"In the 8th year (of the reign) of king Parakesarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottunga-Chōladeva,-on the day of Satabhishaj, which corresponded to a Thursday, to the seventh tithi of the first fortnight and to the twenty-fourth solar day of the month of Vrischika."
The date regularly corresponds to Thursday, November 20th A.D. 1188, a day in the 9th year of Kulottunga-Chola III, which was the 24th day of Vrischika, and at whose mean sunrise the 7th tithi of the first fortnight was current, the moon being, by the equal-space system, in Satabhishaj. By the systems of Garga and the Brahina-siddhanta the nakshatra was Purva Bhadrapada, but they do not seem to have been used. By the equal-space system Satabhishaj ended 7h. 52m. after mean sunrise; whereas by Garga that nakshatra had ended 4h. 16m., and by the Brahma-siddhanta 3h. 17m. before that moment.
232.-In the Kailasanatha temple at Alambakkam.3
1 Svasti śri [*]
2 Puyal väyttu.
21
Ko-[Ppa]rake [sari]pa [nma]r-a22 a Tiribava [pachchakkarava [tti]gal Madu 23 milyum a[mu]-Garav[rum Plodi
245
24 yagai mudi-t[ta]laiy [u]m kood-arn
25 liya dr-Kulottungs-Solade[var]ku [7]andu 26
26 [vada Kam[ba]-n[a]ya[rra] parvva-pa[kahattu]
27 agat-[kila]maiyum peris Kartti][][].
1 No. 400 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909. vadu is expressed by a flourish added to the figure 9. No. 732 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909.
m Ti
"In the 26th year (of the reign) of king [Pa]rakesarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottunga-Chōladeva who was pleased to take Madurai (Madura), Ilam (Ceylon), Karuvar and the crowned head of the Pandya,-on the day of Krittikā, which corresponded to a Monday and to the [tithi] of the first fortnight of the month of [Kumbha]."
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