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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
MARAVARMAN SUNDARA-PANDYA.
97.-In the Mundisvaramuḍaiyar temple at Manappadaividu.1
1 Svasti śri [*] Ko Marapanmar-ana Tribhavanachchakravattiga [1] emmandalamun-gond-aruli[ya*] śri-Sundara-Pandiyadovarku yaṇḍu 10vadu Vrischikanāyaṛṛu pūrvva-pakshattu ashṭamiyum perra Rēvati-nā [!].
[VOL. XI.
"In the 10th year (of the reign) of king Maṛavarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pandyadeva, who was pleased to take every country, on the day of Revati, which corresponded to the 8th tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Vrischika."
I have tested this date for the 10th year of the three known Maravarman Sundara-Pandyas, the first of whom began to reign between March 29 and September 4, A.D. 1216, the second between June 15, A.D. 1238, and January 18, 1239, and the third between June 2, A.D. 1531, and June 1, 1532; that is to say I have calculated the tithi and nakshatra mentioned, during the course of the solar month Vrischika, in each of the years A.D. 1225, 1226, 1247, 1248, 1540, 1541. In no case was Revati current at any time during the civil day which might have been connected with the 8th śukla tithi of a lunar month. I must therefore hold this date to be unsatisfactory.
JATAVARMAN SUNDARA-PANDYA.
98. In the Neḍungalanathasvamin temple at Tiruneḍungalam.3
1 Svasti śri [1]Ko-Chchaḍaipanmar- apa śri-Sundara-P[a]ndiyyadevarkku yaṇḍu
T[i][i]buvanachchakkara vat]tigal
2 manrāvadu Rishabha-nayarru
[yum perra Pusattu nāl.
"In the third year (of the reign) of king Jaṭavarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pandyaḍēva,-on the day of Pushya which corresponded to a Monday and to the eleventh tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Rishabha."
pūrvva-pakshattu ēkādasiyum Tingaṭ-kila[m]ai
This date is also irregular when examined for the third year of any known king of the name declared in the record. Tested for the reigns of the first or second Jaṭavarman SundaraPandya the stated day must fall in either A.D. 1253, 1278, or 1279. In the first case the given tithi fell on a Saturday, in the second on a Wednesday, in the third on a Tuesday; in the first two cases the nakshatra was Hasta and in the third Chitra. On an 11th sakla tithi in Vrishabha the moon cannot be in Pushya.
99. In the Kachchhapesvara temple at Tirukkachchur.* .. [Kor-Saḍai]
1 Svast[i] ári[*] . .
2 bavanachcha[k] karavatti [ga]! śri-Sundara-[P]andi [ya]děvarkku y[an]
3 du 7vadu Mina-nayaṛru pāruva-pakshatta deśamiyam Nayaṛru-[kila]4 maiyum [perra Atta [t]tu nal.
"In the 7th year (of the reign) of king Jaṭa[varman alias] the emperor of the [ three] worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pandyadeva, -on the day of Hasta which corresponded to a Sunday and to the tenth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Mina."
1 No. 446 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909.
No. 680 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909.
There is some space between Śri and Kō which might have been intended for a punctuation,
No. 303 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909. tadu is expressed by a flourish added to the figure 7.
