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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[NOVEMBER, 1889.
remains, the whole inscription was in prose throughout. The writing appears on the whole to be well preserved; but, the rubbing of the lower part being in some places very indistinct, and the inscription being incomplete, all I can say about the specific purpose for which it was pat up is, that the insoription was intended to record certain donations in favour of the temple of the god dalesvara at the town of Udayapura, by a personage whose name appears to be Vasantapala, and who belonged to a family the name of which is given in line 9, but which I am unable to make out with certainty.
The historically important portion of the inscription is contained in lines 1-8, from which we learn that the above-mentioned donations were made during the reign of the (Chaulukya) king Kumarapaladova of Ana[hilapataka), the vanquisher of the king of Sakambhart and of the lord of Avanti (i. e. the ruler of Malava), while Yasodhava[la] was prime-minister, and when a certain Rajya pala ?], who is described as mahd-addhanika, and who had been appointed by Kumarapaladeva, was governing Udayapura. For this statement proves beyond doubt that, when the donations were made, the town of Udayapura, probably together with the surroanding districts, formed part of the kingdom of Anbilwảd.
The date of the inscription was fully given at the commencement of line 1, but all that remains of it now, is the uksharas shs-sudi 15 Gurau, i. e. on the 15th of the bright half of a month the name of which must end with the syllable sha (or possibly kha), on a Thursday. Nevertheless, the statement contained in line 11, that the donations were made on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon, enables us to calculate the date and to supply the missing portion of it at the commencement of line 1, in my opinion, with absolute certainty.
From the inscription C. below we learn that Kumarapaladêva had ceased to rule in April, A.D. 1173; and from other sourcego we know that he had ascended the throne about A.D. 114344. In an attempt to settle the proper date of our inscription, we must then first find out what lunar eclipses from about the beginning of A.D. 1141 to April 1173 fell on a Thursday, and what dates of the Hindu calendar corresponded to the particular Thursdays so found. The result of our proceeding in this manner is as follows:There were lunar eclipses on Thursday,
the 12th February, A.D. 1142,= Phâlguna-sudi 15; the 16th June, A.D. 1155,= Ashadha-sadi 15; the 9th October, A.D. 1158,= Ăśvina-sudi 15; the 18th August, A.D. 1160, =Bhadrapada-gudi 15; the 1st February, A.D. 1162,=Magha-sudi 15; the 12th December, A.D. 1183,= Vikrama 1320 expired, Pausha-sudi 15; the 27th May, A.D. 1165,=Jyaishtha-sudi 15; the 6th April, A.D. 1167,=Chaitra-sodi 15; the 19th September, A.D. 1168, = Asvina-sudi 15;
the 13th January, A.D. 1172, = Magha-sudi 15. From this statement it appears that during the whole reign of KumârapÅladeva there was no lunar eclipse on a Thursday in a Hinda month the name of which ends with kha; and during the same period there was only one lunar eclipse, that of the 12th December, A D. 1163, on a Thursday in a Hindu month the name of which ends with sha. Accordingly, Thursday, the 12th December, A.D. 1163, = Pausha-sudi 15 of Vikrama 1220 expired, must be the date of our inscription, and the full date at the commencement of line 1 must have been Samvat
The name of this deity, OdalAdira-dova, occurs in several other inscriptions at Udaypur; and we also find it in line 5 of an inscription from Bhadrvar, in Archeol. Suru. of Western India, No. 2, page riii.. No. 56. Srf-odala occurs in Archaol. Suru. of Western India, Vol. II, p. 218. We may perhaps compare Udalakdyapa, which in the Paraskara-grihyashtra ocours as the name of a goddess of agriculture.
* This title ooours in the grant of V Akpatirkja of Dhård, ante, Vol. XIV. p. 160, 1. 9. • See e.g. ante, Vol. VI. p. 218.
1 According to von Oppolzer's Canon der Finsternisse the eclipse ( partial one) would have taken place, at Ujjain, 12 h. 36 m. after mean sunrise. And by Professor Jacobi's Tables the full-moon tithi ended 18 h. 24 m. after mean sanrise.
