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[SEPTEMBER, 1888.
are very few people in this world who could hearing the crows crowing he mistook it for afford to give you a measure full of pearls the dawn and commenced his journey. He had every night. So, he that brought you the not proceeded far, when on his way he met a pearls last night must continue to do so every beautiful person coming before him, with a night, and he shall be hereafter your only sack of corn on his head and a bundle of pearls husband. No other person must ever here. tied up in the end of his upper cloth on his after see your face, and you must obey my shoulder, leading a buffalo before him. orders. You must sell all the pearls he "Who are you, sir, walking thus in this brings you every day and convert them into forest ?" said Subrahmanya. money. This money you should spend in When thus addressed the person before him feeding the poor and other charities. None threw down the sack and wept most bitterly. of it must you reserve for the next day, neither “See, sir, my head is almost become bald must you entertain a desire to hoard up money. by having to bear to Kapali's house a sack The day you fail to follow my advice you will of corn every night. This buffalo I lead lose your husband, and then you will have to to Kapali's shed, and this bundle of pearls I fall back on your former wretched life." take to Kalyani's house. My nail wrote their
Thus said Subrahmanya, and Kalyani agreed fate on their respective heads, and by your to strictly follow his injunctions. He then device I have to supply them with what my went to live under a tree opposite to her house nail wrote. When will you relieve me of these for a month to see whether his plan was troubles P" working well, and found it worked admirably. Thus wept Brahmi, for it was no other
Thus, after having conferred happiness, to the personage. He was the Creator and Protector best of his abilities, on the son and daughter of of all beings, and when Subrahmanya had his former master, Subrahmanya took leave of pointed out the way for his master's children Kalyaoi, and with her permission, most re- and they had conquered fate, Brahma too luctantly given, he pursued his pilgrimage. was conquered. So the great God soon gave
One moonlight night, after a long sleep, them eternal felicity and relieved himself of Subrahmanya rose up almost at midnight, and his troubles.
MISCELLANEA CALCULATIONS OF HINDU DATES.
goes on to record a grant of the village of Sin. No. 15.
davallt by Permadi-Sivachitta, in this the twentyIn the Halststone inscription of the third year of their joint reign. Kadamba kings Permați-Sivachitta, and Vija- This gives us, as the basis of the calculation, yiditya-Vishnuchitta, from the Belgaum Dis- Kaliyuga-Samvat 4270 expired, which by the triot, published by me in the Jour. Bo. R. A&. Tables is equivalent to Saka-Samvat 1091 expired; Soc. Vol. IX. pp. 262, 278 ff., the first date (line and the details of the Virodhin samvatsara, 18f.) is-samnivsittê Kaléh kalê kha-sapta-dvi. current, of the Sixty-Year Cycle of Jupiter; the payonidhau pravardhamânê tad-rajyo trayövimse month Suchi, which, from the samlerdnti that is Virôdhini samvatsarê Suchau måsê darśê våre mentioned, denotes Ashadha' (ordinarily JuneVrihaspatéh dakshiņayana-samkrantau," when July); the dark-fortnight; the new-moon tithi ; there has expired, in the Kali era (the year that is Vrihaspativåra, or Thursday; and the summer numbered by the sky (0), (the numeral) seven, (the solstice, which we have to take as represented by numeral) two, and the oceans (four); in the aug. the Karka-Samkranti or entrance of the Sun' menting Virodhin sariwatsara, which is the into Cancer. twenty-third year) in his reign; in the month By the Southern System of the Cycle, which. Suchi; on the new-moon tithi; on the day of from the locality and period of the record, is of Vrihaspati; at the time of the sun's entrance into course the system that ought to apply, the his progress to the south." And the inscription Virodhin samvatsara did coincide with the
For a lithograph, see, when issued, Indian Inscrip. tions, No. 32.
• In Monier-Williams' Sanskrit Dictionary, Suchi is
given as a name, not of a month, but of the hot season, including the two months Jyêshtha and Aghadha.
