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No. 29.)
EIGHT CHOLA DATES.
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47 charaṇāya vrä(brā)hmana-[si]lasvämi-Gova[r]adhanasvāmi-Vandhusvämi-Kavadisvåmi
Narayana48 bvāmi-Madhavasvämi-Bharaņisvämi-Durggasyāmi-Adityasvāmi-Radrasvåmi-sivasvāmi49 S[u]khasväminë vi[bra] kë(P) pratipădita[h*) yato [h]y-asya yatha-kalam
upayujyato na k[o]na schi(chi)d=[vighāta][h*] kara50 niya[ho] Uktan-cha Dharmmaśāstr[@] [ll"] Va(ba)hubhir=v vasudha
data(tt) rajabhi[8*]=Sagar[a]dibhi[*] [10] yasya y asya yada
bhu(bhū)mi[s*]51 tasya tasya tada(da) phalar [ll 19*] Má bha(bhå)d=aphala-Sanká va[h']
para-da[t"]t-oti på[r"][th]ivā [h*] [*] (sva)-danåt=phalam=ānantya[m]
para-dat[t-a] - 52 nupålana(nő) [ll 20*] Sva-da[t]tä [m*] para-da[t]täm-vå yo harēti(ta)
vasundharām [l*] śva-vishthảya[m] krimir-bhubha)två 18 pitibhi[s*]-saha 53 pachyatē [II 21*] Haraté hārayatē bhu(bhū)mi[m] manda-vu(buddhi[s]-tama
vpita[*] [18] & va(ba)ddho Väruņai[h*] păsai( sai) [s*]=ti(ti) [ro]ya [8*]
yonisha(shu) já54 yati(te) [1] [22] Itikamala-dal-amyu(mbu )-vi(bi)ndu-lolamh é ri(Gri)yam
anuchintya mannshya-jivitañ=cha [l*] sakalam-ida[m=]55 da britai-cha vu(bu)ddhva na hi(hi) purushai[ho] para-kirttayo vilopy.[6]
[ll 23*] Vidyud-viläsa-taralām-avagamya sa[mya*]*(8)-loka56 sthitim yasa(sa)si(si) $a(88)kta-manobhir=u[ch]chai[b] [lo] nitya[m] paropakṣiti*]māttra-ratai[r=bhavadbhir"]=dharmm-abhiradhana-parair=anu[modita) -
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59 d’iddhëna || Sa[mvat] .. [88] Karttika-sukla ....
No. 29.-EIGHT CHOLA DATES. BY THE HONOURABLE DIWAN BAHADUR L. D. SWAMIKANNU PILLAT, M.A., B.L., L.L.B.
In his paper on the dates of Chola kings (above, Volume X, pp. 121 ff.) Mr. R. Sewell has shown, by an elaborate calculation of a Tamil date from Nandalar and of five Telugu dates from Båpațla (Nos. 186 to 190) of king Kulóttunga-Choda II., that the accession of Kulottunga-Choda II. (Kulottunga-Chola II. of Tamil inseriptions) must be placed between March 28th and July 14th A.D. 1138. The subjoined eight dates, besides confirming the correctnuss of Mr. Sewell's results, enable us to reduce the limits of the accession of Kulottungn-Chola II. to the period May eth-July 14th A.D. 1188. Also, in the date from the Nandalar Tamil insoription (which I have included among the eight dates now caloulated) the diffioulty felt by
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