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APRIL, 1889.)
GRANT OF BHIMADEVA II.; SIMHA-SAMVAT 93.
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dated in Valabhi-Samvat 945, and again in No. 176 below. The exact epoch of this era, and the scheme of its years, as also its historical starting point, have not yet been properly considered. To these points I will revert on another occasion. And meanwhile it is sufficient to state that the month of Chaitra in Simha-Samvat 93 should be coupled with VikramaSaravat 1262 or 1263 ; and that the English equivalent of the given date is to be found in A. D. 1204, 1205, 1206, or 1207, according as the Vikrama year is treated as a northern or as a southern year, and is applied as current or as expired. By Prof. K. L. Chhatre's Tables, I find that
In northern Vikrama-Samvat 1262 current, Chaitra sukla 11 ended on Saturday, 13th March, A.D. 1204, at about 44 ghatis, 45 palas, after mean sunrise, for AŅhilwad;' eleven days before the Mêsha-Samkranti, which occurred on Wednesday, 24th March, at about 31 gh. 37 p.
In northern Vikrama-Samvat 1263 current (1262 expired) and sonthern Vikrama-Samvat 1262 current, Chaitra sukla 1l ended on Friday, 1st April, A.D. 1205, at about 47 gh. 58 p.; seven days after the Mêsha-Samkranti, which occurred on Thursday, 24th March, at about 47 gk. 8 p.
In northern Vikrama-Samvat 1264 current (1263 expired) and southern Vikrama-Samvat 1263 current, Chaitra sukla 11 ended on Wednesday, 22nd March, A.D. 1206, at about 29 gh. 52 p.; three days before the Mêsba-Samkranti, which occurred on Saturday, 25th March, at About 2 gh. 40 p., and would be celebrated on the same day.
And finally, in southern Vikrama-Samvat 1264 current (1263 expired), Chaitra sukla 11 ended, as required, on Sunday, 11th March, A.D. 1207, at about 59 gh. 5 p. But this was fourteen days before the Mesha-Sankranti, which occurred on Sunday, 25th March, at about 18 gh. 11 p., and would be celebrated on that day. This calculation, of course, is for the nirayana or non precessional savikránti. And the discrepancy cannot be adjusted by assuming that this record intends to quote the sayana or precessional sarikránti; for, the sayana Mêsha-Samkranti occurred, roughly, either very late on Tuesday, 13th March, or very early on Wednesday, 14th March. There seems, therefore, no room for doubting that this day, Sunday, 25th March, A.D. 1207, is the one that is intended. But the tithi which ended on this day, at about 55 gh. 58 p., was the eleventh tithi of the dark fortnight of Chaitra, by the amánta arrangement, which is the proper one for this locality and period. And, to reconcile the results, we must assume a genuine mistake in the preparation of the record ; and, though én, the bright fortnight,' is distinctly the reading in the text, we must alter it into ba, the dark fortnight.'
TEXT.3
First Plate. 1 Om Rájávali pûrvva-vat 11 Samvat 93 Chaitra su di i Ravau
ady=ha srimad-A2 nahilapatako
samasta - rájávall - virajita - maharajadhiraja - sri3 Bhimadovan sva(sva)-bhujyamâna-Kachchha-mandal-Amtahpâti-samasta
rajapurusha4 o vrå (bra)hman-êttarân taṁ(n)-nivåsi(si)-janapadá[m*]s=cha vô(68)dhayaty
Astu vaḥ samviditam 5 yatha | Adya samkrarti-parvvaņi char-achara-guru bhagavatam
Bhavani-patimrabhya6 rchya samsarasy=&sâratâm vichistya Prasamnna'pura-sthâna-vinirgatâyaḥ
Vachchha(tsa)-88
, all through.
1 The times here are for Aphilw 3 From the original plates. 5 Read prasanna.
• Represented by a symbol. • Road vinirgataya.
