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As, 1888.
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northern arrangement, on Friday, the 17th March, Vyaya is current, which is the seven hunat about 28 ghatís, 2 palas.
dred and eighty-eighth of the years that have With the basis, however, of Saka-Samvat 726 gone by from the time of the Saka king; (and) expired, the given tithi, Vaisakha krishna 5 of while there is current, with perpetual increase of Saka-Samvat 727 current, ended, by the Amanta sovereignty, the augmenting year fifty-two of the southern arrangement, on Friany, the 3rd May, victorious reign of him who is marked with the A. D. 804, at about 49 ghatis, 37 palas; but, by glorious name of Amoghavarsha-Nripatunga, the Purnimenta northern arrangement, on Thurs- ............ when it is the new-moon tithi, day, the 4th April, A.D. 804, at about 15 and Sunday, of the month Jyêshtha (ordinarily ghatis, 45 palas.
May-June); at the time of an eclipse of the And this result is in perfect agreement with the name of the given samvatsara, Su- Here again, whether by the literal meaning of bhånu. For, though by the Southern System the text the given year, Saka-Samvat 788, is of the Cycle, if it had really been started at | quoted as current, or as expired, is not quite cer. that time, the Subhanu sancatsara had expired tain. But correct results can be obtained only by before the resulting English date, yet, from taking it as an expired year. Thus, in Saka. Bome Tables drawn up by Mr. Sh. B. Dikshit, Samvat 788 current (A.D. 865-66), there was no I find that according to the so-called Northern eclipse of the sun, on the given tithi. Also by the System, and the only really astronomical system, Southern System of the Cycle, the Vyaya sam of the Cycle, the Subhanu samvatsara com. vatsara coincided with Saka-Samvat 789 current menced on the 17th June, A.D. 803, which is (A.D. 866-67). And, by the Northern System, it in due accordance with the result from Varaha- commenced in Saka-Samvat 788 current, on the mihira's rule in the Brihat-Samhita, viii. 20, 21, 23rd September, A.D. 865, and was followed by that this samvatsara was current at the end of the Sarvajit samvatsara in Saka-Samvat 789 carSaka-Samvat 726 expired, i.e. at the commence- rent, on the 20th September, A. D. 866; and thus, ment of 727 current; and was followed by the as will be seen, by either system it was curTirana samvatsara on the 12th June, A.D. 804. rent on the given date, the English equivalent Therefore, the Subhanu samvatsara was cur- of which is the 16th June, A.D. 866. rent on the given date, as recorded.
With the basis of Saka-Samvat 788 expired, Accordingly, this record proves-(1) that, the given tithi, Jyêshtha krishna 15,1 belong. at any rate up to A.D. 804, even as far down ing to Saka-Samvat 789 current, ended, by the in Southern India as the banks of the river Párnimanta northern arrangement of the lunar Tungabhadra, to which locality the record fortnights, at about 1 ghati, 49 palas, on Saturrefers itself, the Parpimanta northern arrange- day, the 18th May, A. D. 866, when there was no ment of the lunar fortnights was still eclipse of the sun; but, by the Amdnta southern used in connection with the years of the Baka arrangement, at about 20 gh. 5p. on Sunday, the era ; and (2) that, up to the same date, and 18th June, A. D. 886, when there was an in the same part of the country, it is the eclipse of the sun,' which, as the tithi ended at Northern System of the Sixty-Year Cycle of about 2-2 P.M. (for Bombay), might be visible in Jupiter that was in use, at any rate, in con- India nection with the years of the Saka era.
Accordingly this record proves that, by A.D. No. 10.
886, the Amanta southern arrangement of the In the Sirur stone inscription of the Rash- lunar fortnights had been applied to the years trakuta king Amoghavarsha I., from the of the Saka era, in Southern India, or at any Dharwad District, the date (ante, Vol. XII. rate in the particular part of the country to p. 219, line 15ff.) is-Saka-npipa-kål-&tita-saliivat- which this inscription belonge. And & comsaranga! el-nur=enbhatt-entaneya Vyayam emba parison of the results for the grant of Sakasamvatsaram pravartise śrimad- Amoghavarsha- Samvat 727 current, No. 9 above, shews that this Nripatunga-nâm-ankitanå vijaya-rajya-pravardha- change in the calendar was made between mana-samvatsarangal ayvatt-eradum uttar-Ottarath A. D. 804 and 886. rájy-Abhivriddhi salutt-ire ........ Jyê. As the Subhanu saihvatsara was current on the slatha-masad=amaseyum Adityaváram age surya- given tithi according to both the Northern and grahaņad=andu,-"when the samvatsara named the Southern Systems of the Cycle, this record
. From the use of Mr. Sh. B. Dikshit's Tables, I find Sukla 1; though the latter is the initial day that is that, for the purposes of such rules as that of Varaha- required for the notation of tithis. mihira, the Saka years have to be treated as commencing See Indian Eras, p. 212. with the Media-Sakrinti, and not with Chaitra
