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KALAS-BUDRUKH PLATES OF BHILLAMA III.
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Ahmadnagar District. The village of Tamra- the sixty-Year Cycle; and, since the English prastare, which bonnded it on the south, has equivalent of the given tithi of the Púrninow disappeared. Thuha, which bounded it mánta northern Kårttika would be about a on the west, is the modern Thagaum-Budrakh, month earlier, when there was no solar eclipse, two miles to the west by north. Payodhara, with the Amante southern arrangement of the river which bounded it on the north, must the lunar fortnights. Also, unless we choose be the old original name of the modern Pra- to assume a mistake in the number of the vard, which flows by just to the north of given year, in deliberately writing the year Kalas-Budrakh, and joins the Mahalungi or 948 instead of 947, in words as well as in MÅlungi at Sangamner.
figures, which assumption is quite unnecesThe fall details of the date, which, in line sary, since, even to the present day, in some 14f., is recorded both in words and in decimal | parts of Southern India the reckoning of the figures, are, by literal translation, -"in nine Saka era is the system of current years, 10-this centuries, inoreased by forty-eight, of the record furnishes & clear instance of the years that have gone by from the time of the quotation of a current Saka year. It is Saka king; or, in figures 948; on the occur. true that an eclipse of the sun occurred again rence of an eclipse of the sun in (the month) on Saturday, the 12th November, A. D. 1026, Karttika (October-November) of the Krodhana which answers, again in accordance with the samvatsara." The samvatsara in question is Amánta southern reckoning, to the same tithi one of the years of the Sixty-Year Cycle of of Saka-Samvat 949 current, or 948 expired. Jupiter. And, by the Southern System of this But the chief guide as to the period in which we cycle, the Krôdhana sasivatsara, current, was have to find the eclipse, is given by the name identical with Saka-Samvat 947 expired, and of the saivataara ; and, as I have said, the 948 current. With the basis of Saka-Samvat 947 Krôdhana sanhvatsara, by the Southern System," expired, and according to the Amánta southern was Saka-Samvat 947 expired, and 948 current, arrangement of the lunar fortnights, I find, from equivalent to A.D. 1025-26 current. If we Prof. K.L. Chhatre's Tables, that the given tithi, were to accept the eclipse of the 12th Novemviz. the new-moon tithi of the month Karttika ber, A.D. 1026, which would be the correct of Saka-Sauvat 948 current, ended on Tues- one for Saka-Samvat 948 as an expired year, day, the 23rd November, A.D. 1026, when we should have, either to understand that the there was an eclipse of the sun; and, as Kródhana saivatsara also is intended to be the tithi ended, approximately, at 4 ghatis, taken as expired, which would be, to say the 40 palas, or 1 hour, 52 minutes, after mean least, an absurd way of quoting it; or else Bunrise at Bombay, there would be nothing in to correct the name of the saivatsara from the time to prevent the eclipse being visible at Krodhana into Kshaya, which is in itself hardly Bombay and to the east of it. By the Northern justifiable, and is in fact wholly unnecessary, System of the cycle, the Krôdhana samvatsara because, as we have seen, a suitable eclipse of was current, according to the Tables, at the the sun did occur, on the given tith, in the commencement of Saka-Samvat 946 corrent Krodhana saivatsara. It is also true that the (A.D. 1023-24); and, from some Tables and word atita occurs in the compound Saka-uriparules drawn up by Mr. Sh. B. Dikshit, I kál átita-sarivatsara-satéska; and that it is not find that it commenced on Thursday, the 22nd always easy to decide whether the use of it in November, A.D. 1022, and was followed by the this and similar compounds does, or does not, Kshaya sasivatsara on Monday, the 18th Novem- qualify the exact number of the year. In some ber, A.D. 1023. But there was no eclipse of cases, indeed, unless we assume the omission of the sun, on the given tith, in this period ; nor a separate word meaning "having expired," after it, before the 23rd November, A.D. 1025. it would seem that the use of it in the comIt is evident, therefore, that in this record wepoand renlly is intended to mark the exact are concerned with the Southern System of given year as an expired year. But the word • See Indian Eras, p. 214.
"See Indian Eras, p. 171, and Patoll's Chronology, 10 Seo "Note on the Epoch of the Saks Era," which p. 133. will appear shortly in this Journal
