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No.
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DATES OF PANDYA KINGS.
Date of inscription A. D. Regnal Accession later than A. D. year.
S 104
(Reign of J. S. P. I.)
105
Wed. 17 Jan. 1285
13
,, 106 Sat. 26 Feb. 1289 ,, 107
Mon. 3 July 1290
14
108 Mon. 25 Aug. 1292 17
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8
17 Jan. 1277
26 Feb. 1276.
3 July 1276.
25 Aug. 1275.
5 rkku yaṇḍu 2vadu
6 Midhuna-nayarru iru
7 badan-diyadiyum pu
8 rvva-pakshattu trayō9 dasiyum Budhan-kila
10 maiyum per[ra A]
11 pilattu nāļ.
Year 8 should be year 9.
From this statement it will be seen that we have six dates, viz., Nos. 23, 24, 76, 77, 106 and 107 which as they stand, without any alteration, show that the king's accession took place in 1276 A.D. after August the 5th; one, No. 108, which shows that it may have taken place on or before August 25, 1276; and two, which, as they stand show that it took place before August 27th in that year. These are Nos. 54 and 55. Also one, No. 26, which, without alteration of the regnal year, supports that conclusion though a wrong tithi was quoted. Seven others, Nos. 25, 27, 52, 53, 74, 75 and 105, are not inconsistent with it if one year is either added to or deducted from the given regnal year. Nine others are either irregular or belong to the reign of a different king.1
JATAVARMAN KULASEKHARA.
108.-In the Mülasthanesvara temple at Tenkarai, Svasti śr[1]: r18 Ko-Chcha
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2 daiyavarmmar-apa Tribh[uv"]a
3 nach [cha]kravattigal 6r1.3
4 Kulasekharadeva
Notes.
Referring to my remarks on the accession-date of this king at p. 129 of Vol. X, it will be seen that I now accept K. 26, with Kielhorn's proposed alteration. It was "intrinsically wrong" for the stated tithi, but, with the alteration made, it supports the accession-date which I now believe to be the correct one. With regard to two other dates, Nos. 55 and 75, I was doubtful on account of apparent errors in them; but in view of the light since thrown on the matter they may be accepted with those errors corrected.
261
"In the 2nd year (of the reign) of the glorious king Jatavarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulasekharadeva,-on the day of Anuradha which corre
No. 185 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1910.
A letter kw has been engraved and erased after 4ri; kule is written over an erasure,
1 Since this paper was in print I have seen Professor Jacobi's article above (pp. 132, ff.). His No. 86 (p. 136) confirms my opinion, since it shows that the king could not have begun to reign earlier than 10th August A.D. 1276, 9th August of that year being stil in his 14th year. This still further reduces the doubtful days of his secession, and, being accepted, proves that he ascended the throne on a day between 10th and 25th August A.D. 1276.
