Indian Antiquary Vol 12

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 59

FEBRUARY, 1883.)
CONVERSION OF MUHAMMADAN DATES.
PADINENT-AGRAHÂRA.
BY J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.S., M.R.A.S. In vol. X, pp. 185ff, I published the fully acquired beauty; (and) among them there Damba! Buddhist inscription, which records is the famous agrahára that has the name of grants that were made in Saka 1017 (A.D. Narugunda, the pleasure-garden of the goddess) 1095-6), the Yuva sarivatsara, while Lakshma- Lakshmi." dôvi, one of the queens of the Western And, in a slightly different form, viz:Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI, was govern- Vara-Jambadvipadoļu ramjisuvudu Bharataing the Padinent- Agrahára, or Eighteen | kshtrama kshetrado! bardh[uram-amtê Agraharas, and the city of Dharmapura, Dhar- Kuntaļam tad-vishayado!-atiśobh-âspadam inavolal, or Damba!. And I remarked that Beļvalam chittaram=amta (nadol-oppam"The Eighteen Agraháras appear to have been ba]dedudu Padinemt-Agraharakkam-olpim a group of towns somewhere in the north of sira - - - - - - - - - - - - Maisûr or in the south of the Dharwad District; anupama Půli-puạy-îgraharam || but I think that they have not yet been The same verse occurs in 11. 7-10 of a actually identified."
fragment of an inscription of the eleventh or An inscription of Saka 1069 (A.D. 1147-8), twelfth century A.D. at Hůli in the Parasgad the Prabhava sariwatsara, in the front of the Taluka of the Belgaum District. tempie of Jôda-Hanumanta at Nargund in the These two verses show that Narugund, the Nawalgund Taluka of the Dharwad District, modern Nargund, and Půli, the modern Hûli, contains in Il. 13-15, the following verse :- were two of the Padinent- Agrahdra, Hadinen! Transcription.
Agrahára, or Eighteen Agraharas; and thereVara-Jambûdvipado! ramjisuvudu Bharata- fpre that the Eighteen Agraháras were not a kshetramua kshetrado!u bandhuram=anta collection of eighteen contiguous townships, Kuntalam tad-vishayado!-atiéôbh-aspadam but eighteen towns of importance in different Belvalar chittaradimd=a nadoloppam- parts of the Belvola Three-hundred district. badedudu Padinemt-Agraharam tad- Doubtless other inscriptions, as they come to abhyantarado! Lakshmi-vihâram negarddu- notice, will give us the names of the remaining (rdu)du Narugund-abhidhân-âgrahara[m] || sixteen towns. Damba! itself may perhaps be Translation.
one of them; but the passage in the Buddhist "In the excellent Jambûdvspa, the country of inscription spoken of above is not quite clear Bharata is charming; in that country there is on this point: it may mean "the Eighteen the beautiful Kuntala ;' in that region there is Agraharas and (also) Dharmapura"; or it Belvala,' the abode of extreme lustre ; in that may mean "the Eighteen Agraharas and district the Eighteen Agraháras have wonder- (therefore) Dharmaprau."
TABLES FOR THE CONVERSION OF MUHAMMADAN INTO EUROPEAN
DATES, AND THE CONVERSE.
BY D. B. HUTCHEON, STONEHAVEN. The examples given below will sufficiently | Ferie and days for the given month, and also explain the use of these tables. The column of the day of the month. The Feriæ for days are Ferie (F) indicates the day of the week, the days themselves, rejecting 'sevens. counting Sunday = 1, Monday = 2, &c. and 2.-If Table I does not contain the given Saturday = 7 or 0.
year, take from that Table the year immediately I. To find the Christian date corresponding less, and from Table II such a number of years to any given Muhammadan date.
as together with it will be equal to the given Rule 1.-If Table I contains the given Hijra Hijra year, with the corresponding Christian year, take from it the Hijra and Christian years, Feriæ, and days. Proceed as in Rule 1 years, Feria, and days, and from Table III the for months and days.
See Dynasties of the Kanaren note 1.
Districts, p. 42,
See id. p. 53, note 3. The older and original form of the name was Beļvols.