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Mr. Sewell about the nakshatra Śravana is explained by a reference to the custom usually followed in fixing the day of the Sivaratri in Southern India. The Sivaratri begins at midnight, when the nakshatra Sravana must be current, and is kept all the following day. The inscription presumably refers to the nakshatra Sravana only in this sense, as it was not current at sunrise on the following day.
KULOTTUNGA-CHOLA (II)
244. In the Vaidyanathasvamin temple at Tirumalavāḍi.1
1 Svasti Śri [*] Pa-maruviya puriyēlum
33
Kōv-Irajakesari
34 patmariga Tribavapachchakkaravattigali-Kalstanga-var
35 yanḍu 2āvadu Danu-nayarru apara-pakshattu navamiyu[m] Ti[n]
36 gat-kilamaiyum perra Attatti-pā].
"In the 2nd year (of the reign) of king Rajakesarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottungs-Chōladēva, on the day of Hasta, which corre sponded to a Monday and to the ninth tithi of the second fortaight of the month of Dhanus."
The date corresponds to Monday, the 10th December A.D. 1134, on which day the nakshatra Hasta ended at 5 ghatik is after mean sunrise, while the 9th tithi of the dark fortnight of the lunar month Märgasira commenced on the same day at 45 ghatikas after mean sunrise. The solar mouth was Dhanus, as recorded in the inscription.
245. In the Karavandisvara temple at Uḍaiyarkōyil.
1 Svast[i] Sr[i] - Pu-ma [unju-padumam
29
30 [Tribava [us]chchakkaravattigs)
31 ndu 4 nal-ävadu
33 Sinna-nayarru apara-paksha [tt]a Tinga [1-ki]lamai[yu]m [sadurtt] iyu[m] perra Irivadi-[n]].
K-I[]jakaripapmaiņa ri-Kujottanga-Boladevakka ya
"In the 4th-fourth-year (of the reign) of king Rajakesarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulottunga-Chōladeva, on the day of Revati, which corresponded to a Monday and to the fourth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Simha."
The date corresponds to Monday, the 17th August, A.D. 1136, on which day the fourth tithi of the second fortnight of the lunar month Bhadrapada ended at 41 ghatikis after mean sunrise, while the nakshatra Revati ended on the same day shortly after sunrise. The ending moment of the nakshatra in mean Lanka time was just before sunrise on the 17th August, but from the time of the year and for any place in Southern India, it will be seen, from Table XIII of my Indian Chronology that the ending moment of the nakshatra in local time must have been shortly after sunrise, so that the inscription is correct in giving the nakshatra as Revati. The solar month was Simha..
1 No. 85 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1895. No. 405 of the same for 1902.
