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No. 15.)
RON INSCRIPTION OF AMOGHAVARSHA I: A.D. 874.
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ended at about 6 h. 9 m. on 17 July, there was an annalar eclipse of the sun, visible in India. This day was the new-moon of the amānta Ashādha or the purnimānta Śrāvana. Bat the use of a pūrnimānta month in Southern India, at any rate as late as in A.D. 874, would be very exceptional, and it is hardly possible to understand the record in that way. The month Śrāvana, however, begins at the moment of the new-moon of the amānta Åshādha. And the eclipse of 17 July may be accepted, if we understand the record to mean "an eclipse of the sun (at the new-moon which gave the beginning) of the month Śrāvana". In the circumstances, I think that this may be done, and that we may accept the intended day as being 17 July, A.D. 874. The date, however, must be characterized as an anomalous one, though perhaps not actually irregular: it is unfortunate that the weekday, which might have given a clear guide, was not given.
The only place mentioned in this inscription is Rop itself, as Roņa, in 1. 7.
TEXT.3 1 Om Svasty-Amõghavarsha sriprituvivallabha mabā[rāja) - 2 dbirāja paramé[]vara bha(ta)rarā rājya[2]= [tta)3 r-ottharam-abhivriddhi(yol] Sa(sa)ka-npipa-[ka]4 l-ati(ti)ta-samvatsaranga[!-ē]l-nula tomba[ttu) 5 varisamum-āru va[rsham]um pod-andu Ja[ya)6 m-emba varshada Srāvana-māsada su(sūryya. 7 grahaņado! Ballav-arasar Rönada ma8 bājanake . . . . na-pu(pů)jya(mam] kottu .. Ju 9 tuppamum kopamu. .
lidor a(?)ddogo [ll] 10 Idan-alida kā . . . . . . . . . . . .. .8[]si11 & kavileya[rn sāsirv var-ppārvvaruma]n=ali12 de .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rati 13 ppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ndam nili(ri)si14 doń [ll]
TRANSLATION Om! Hail! In the higher and higher increase of the reign of Amõghavarsha (I), the favourite of Fortune and the Earth, the Mahārājādhiraja, the Paraměsvara, the Bhatāra :
(Line 3) When there have gone by seven hundred and ninety years and six years of the years elapsed since the time of the Saka king; at an eclipse of the sun of the month Srāvana of the year named Jaya :
(L. 7) Ballavarasa, having given ....... to the Mahājanas of Rõna, . . . . . . . clarified butter and male buffaloes .
. . (L. 10) . . . . .who destroys this, . .. . .. of destroying a thousand cows and a thousand Brāhmans ! (L. 12) . . .
set up . . . . .
. I.-Rön inscription of Turagavedenge. This record stands on the rame stone tablet below the inscription Hof A.D. 874, from which it was marked off by a line made across the stone. It consists of five lines of writing :
From the ink-impression.
1 See Sewell and Dikshit's Indian Calendar, p. 120. * See remarks by Professor Kielhorn in Ind. Ant., vol. 25, p. 271. • Represented by a plain spiral symbok Read opritheoio. . Read uttar-ättar-ab mivriddhigol.
Read al-rura.
Read parishamn, or carshaman.
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