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DATES OF PANDYA KINGS.
No. 24].
This date is altogether unsatisfactory. In the 7th year of the reign of Jaṭavarman Sundara-Pandya I the 10th sukla tithi in Mina corresponded to Saturday, March 10th A.D. 1258, the Pushya nakshatra being current at mean sunrise.
For the 7th year of the reign of Jața varman Sundara-Pandya II I have tried all the possible years. In no case is the nakshatra quoted correct for the day corresponding to the 10th sukla tithi in Mina, these being always either Punarvasu, Pushya, or Aslesha, and never Hasta. Only in one year, A.D. 1284, does the 10th sakla tithi correspond to a Sunday, and that was on 27th February of that year; but the nakshatra for that day was Punarvasu.
The record cannot belong to the reign of any possible king of the name coming between Maravarman Kulasekhara I, whose last known date is June 9th A.D. 1309, and the second king of that name, whose reign began in March A.D. 1314; since in all the possible years that I have tried, the nakshatra, on the given day, is either Punarvasu or Pushya. Indeed during the month of Mina the moon cannot be in Hasta on a 10th sukla tithi.
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100. In the Vighnesvara temple at Tirukkachchür.1
1 Svasti śri [*] Kor-Chadapanmar-ana Tiribhuva Jnachobakkaravattigal emmandala]mun-gond-aruliya sri-Sundara Pandiyadevarkku yaṇḍu
tradiyaiya[m] Viyala-kkila]maiyum perra
Risha
2 bha-nayarṛu pürrva-pakahattu
Pūśattu nā[!].
"In the 8th year (of the reign) of king Jaṭavarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Paṇḍyadeva, who was pleased to take every country,- on the day of Pushya which corresponded to a Thursday and to the third tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Rishabha."
101.-In the Neḍungalanathasvamin temple at Tiruneḍungalam.5
8vadu3
This date is irregular. To correspond with the 8th year of the named king, either the first or the second of the dynasty, the day must fall in either A.D. 1258, 1283, or 1284. In 1258 the 3rd sukla tithi in Vrishabha was current at sunrise of a Tuesday, and the nakshatra was Mrigasiras or Ardra at sunrise. In 1283 the week-day was Saturday, and the nakshatra was Mrigasiras by all systems. In 1284 the week-day was Friday, and the nakshatra at sunrise was Punarvasu by all systems. Part of the 3rd śukla tithi, in this last case, coincided with Thursday; it did so in fact for the last 10 hours of that day; but during that period the nakshatra was Ardra or Punarvasu.
1 [v][0][1]samasta-jagad-ädhärn
5 [Sun]da[ra]-Pa[ndiya] do[va]rku yanḍu pa[i]to [n]ravadu? Makara-nayarru pa[rvva]pakahatta [sha]sh[th]iy[u]m Budhan-kila[m]aiyum
6 perra Urosan [i]-nal.
1 No. 319 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909. 2 Read Tribhuvana.. 3 radu is represented by a flourish. No. 677 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909. The portion of this line, from ndiya to vadu, is written over an erasure. Read padinonrüvadu.
[Sun]dara-Pandyadeva,
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"In the eleventh year (of the reign) of -on the day of Rohini which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the sixth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Makara."
Read tritiyaiyum.
