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JULY, 1889.)
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KINGS OF CHEDI.
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And accordingly, by every one of the three rules, the date, Wednesday, the 19th October, A.D. 1474, did fall in the year Subhakfit, and the writer of the date was strictly correct in quoting that year. The result shows how necessary it may be to calculate exactly the commencement of a Jupiter's year; for, in accordance with the ordinary and on the whole very useful) Tables, the writer certainly ought to have quoted the year Plava, because that year was current at the commencement of the solar year in which the date was written.
Illustration of the use of Table I. (a) What was the European date (old style) for the day 2259 999 P
Given the day... 2259 999 Deduct next lower figure in column of centuries... - 2232 407 = A.D. 1400 (old style)
Remainder 27 592 Dedact next lower figure in table of years......... - 27 575 = 75, July ;
Remainder
17, A.D. 1475, July. Answer :-17th July, A.D. 1475, old style. (6) What was the European date (new style) for the day 2410 637 ?
Given the day... 2410 637 Dedact next lower figure in column of centuries (new style) -2378 495 = A.D. 1800 (new style);
Remainder 32 142 Deduct next lower figure in table of years................. - 32 111 = _ 87, December ;
Romainder
31, A.D, 1887, December, Angwer:-31st December, A.D. 1887, new style.
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KINGS OF CHEDI.
BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. I edit the first four of these inscriptions from rubbings supplied to me by Mr. Fleet, to whom they were made over by Sir A. Cunningham. And my account of the fifth inscription is Also from & rubbing received in the same way, bat in this instance, owing partly to the condition of the original inscription and partly to the deficiencies of the rubbing, I can do little more than point out the names of royal personages, which happen to be legible in the record, as it presenta itaelf to me in the rabbing.
A. Towar Stone-Inscription of Gayakarnadeve.
The (Chedi) year 902. This inscription, socording to Sir A. Cunningham, is on a light-green stone, which appears to have been found at Tower, the ancient Tripuri, once the capital city of the main branch of the Kalachuri rulers of Chodi, and now a village about six miles to the west of Jabalpur, in the Central Provinces. No information is available as to where the stone is at present.
The inscription contains 22 lines. The writing covers a space of 12" broad by 14%" high, and with the exception of perhaps one akshara, which is indistinct in the rubbing, it is in a state of perfect preservation. The size of the letters is between and ta". The characters are Någari. The language is Sanskrit; and, with the exception of the introductory Ori namah Bivaya, the inscription is in verse throughout. As regards orthography, 6 is denoted by the siga for y, everywhere except in bbhavét, line 16, abdhih, line 19, and abda (?), line 21; and the dental is twice pat for the palatal sibilant.
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