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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[August, 1888.
(the month) Jyêshtha.' Assuming, for reasons ravau punya-tithau ....... ie., 'on which it is unnecessary to mention here, the the tenth (lunar day) of the bright half of the date to have been recorded in the Chedi era, month) Ashâạba, the sun having entered into and taking that era to commence, as we have the zodiacal sign of Cancer, op (this) auspicidone hitherto, about July-August A D. 249, the ous tithi' i. e., as I take it, after consultation year corresponding to the Chedi year 417 ex-with Dr. Bühler, on the occasion of the sun's pired, would be A.D. 667. In that year, the entering the sign of Cancer, or on the Karnew-moon day of the month Jyaishtha fell on kata-sankranti. In lines 24 and 25, of which April 29, and on that day there was no solar the former is incomplete at the end and the eclipse ; nor was there one in April or May latter at the beginning, we readof the preceding year A.D. 166." On the L. 24 ...... sa[m]vatsara-sata-chatushother hand, taking the date to be recorded, as tayê [sha ?] XXXXX stated in the grant itself, in the Saks era, the L. 25 X II (sa ?]mn 400. 80. 6. Ashacorresponding date is May 10, A.D. 495 | dha su [10 P] Adityaváre 11 ......" and on that day there was a solar eclipse The sha at the end of line 24 is distinctly 10h 39m Greenwich time.
visible, but there are certain marks below it, The Nausart grant, which has been edited both in the impression and, more clearly still, by the late Dr. Bhagvanlal Indraji, ib. in the photograph, which would render it page 70, is dated - 456 (expressed both in possible to read the whole akshara shta, i.e. numerical symbols and in words), Magha- to regard it as the beginning of the word śuddha-panchadasyam chandr-Ôparage, i.e. 'on 'sh!dšiti (88), not of shadafiti (86), were it not the 15th lunar day of the bright half of that in the following line the namerical symthe month Magha, on the occasion of an bol for the unit is distinctly 6, and not the eclipse of the moon,' on a day of the week similar symbol for 8. In line 25 the numeri. which, owing to the damaged state of the plate cal symbol following upon fu is decidedly cannot now be given with any certainty. indistinct. What is clearly seen, both in the Assuming the date to have been recorded in the impression and in the photograph, is the symbol Chêdi era, and taking that era to commence for 10, as it occurs, e. g. at the end of the about July-August A.D. 249, the corresponding Valabhi grant of Dharasena II., ante, Vol. VIII. date must be either Wednesday, January 14, page 303, minus the curved line on the right; 705, or Tuesday, February 2, 706, according but there are indications that that curved line as the figure 456 denotes the current year or had been engraved and that therefore 10 was the number of years expired. According to von intended. It is more difficult to say, whether Oppolzer's Canon der Finsternisse there was certain marks after the symbol for 10. are no lunar eclipse on January 14, 705, but there accidental scratches or intended to denote the was one on February 2, 706, 16h 37m Green- unit 1 or 2. Here the actual mention of the wich time or at Lauka, 9h 40m P.M.
tenth in line 15 is a primá facie argument in For the date of the Kavi grant, which has favour of the former and against the latter been edited by Dr. Bühler, ante, Vol. V. page alternative. 109, and of which I owe a photograph to Dr. In all probability, then, the grant is datedBühler and an impression to Mr. Flect, we 486, on the 10th lunar day of the bright half have two data, one in lines 15 and 16, and the of the month Ashâdha, on a Sunday, on the other in lines 24 and 25, of which the latter, occasion of the sun's entering into the unfortunately, owing to the state of the plate, zodiacal sign of Cancer. But there is just is not absolutely certain. In lines 15 and 16 the possibility, that the grant was made on the we read
occasion of the Karkața-samkrânti, on the 10th L. 15. ....... Ashâdha-sud[dh]a- tithi of the bright half of Ashaqha, and recorded daśam yâm P]
on a Sunday, the 11th or 12th of the bright half L. 16 Karkkațaka-r[i*]sau sa[m]krânt[é?] of Åshidha. Under any circumstances the
11 In A.D. 606 there were two solar eclipson, one on the other on August 25. In A.D. 665 there was solar March 11, and the other on September 4, and in A.D. 667 eclipse on the new-moon day of the nija Jysishtha, which there were also two solar eclipses, one on February 28, and I was April 21.
