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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[APRIL, 1890
Bhadrika (i.e. Bhadrapada) nakshatra on the Accordingly, the date of the accession of second day of the dark fortnight, on Thursday, Rajaraja II. was Thursday, 18th August, during the excellent Vanij lagna (i.e. the rising A.D. 1022 of the sign Tula)."
This grant of Rajaraja II, and the Chellar Here, again, the given Saka year, 911. is not rent of Kulottunga-Chôvladeva II. (ante, Vol. distinctly specified either as current or its expirl. XIV. p. 55 ff.), give the following duration of But correct results can be obtained only ly apply. reigns - ing it as an expired year.
Amma II. ................................. 25 years In Saka-Samvat 944 current, the sakrinti or His elder half-brother, Dânårnaval. 3 Entrance of the sun into Simha occurred on the
A time of anarchy' ..................... 27 . 26th July, A.D. 1021, at about 38 ghatis, 8 palas, Saktivarman,or Chålukya-Chandra, efter mean sunrise (for Bombay. And the dark
12 of Dånarnava..................... 12 .. Hecond tithi which occurred while the sun remained Ani! his younger brother. Vimals in Simha, was the am inta Sravan krishna .. dityo ............. which ended, not on a Thursday, but on Friday. 28th July, at about 33 gh. 45. after mean sunrise.
Total...... 74 years Nor can the tithi here be connected with the Thursday, as a current tithi : for, at sunrise on We have found wage 103 above) that the actual the Thursday, the nakshatra was Dhanishtha, date of the accession of Amma II. was Friday, No. 23, by all three systems; and Uttara-Bhadra- 5th December, A.D. 945, corresponding to the pada, No. 26, did not occur at all on that day. amanta Margasirsha krishna 13 of Saka-Sanivat
In Saka Samvat 945 current (944 expired), 868 current. Adding to this year the above however, the results work out quite satisfactorily. seventy-four years, we are brought to SakatIn this year the sum entered Siraha on the 26th Sauvat 912 current, for the accession of RajaJuly, A.D. 1022, at about 53 gh. 40 p. The dark råja II., the son and succeasor of Vimaladitya. second tithi which occurred while the sun wag It really took place, however, as we have just still in Sinha, was the amanta Bhadrapada seen, in Saka-Samvat 945 current. And this krishna 2, which ended on Thursday, 16th difference of three years in seventy-four, with August, at about 24 gh. 50 p. At sunrise on that only four intervening reigns, or, including the day, there was the Uttara-Bhadrapadá nak. time of anarchy, five intervening periods.is shatra, by all three systems, and it ended, instructive, in indicating the extent to which according to all three systems, at about 16 hrs. we may go in the way of adjustment, in deter25 min., = 41 gh. 2-5 p., after mean sunrise (for mining the dates of the Eastern Chalukya kings Ujjain). And Mr. Sh. B. Dikshit finds that from the duration of the reign of each of them there was the Vaņij lagna from about 7 gh. as given in even years in the grants of this 8 p. to 12 gh. 27 p. after apparent sunrise for
nt ennriee for dynasty. Råjainahêndri.
J. F. FLEET.
NOTES AND QUERIES. OMENS.
| return of a long absent friend. What the crow In Bihar.
caws is thdin, place,' and means that he knows
where the absent friend is. If the friend turns (1) The quivering of the left eyelid is very
up you must feed the bird with curds and rice for anlucky, but that of the right means the return
ita information. But it is unlucky to see a kite. of an absent relative or friend, or bappy news
owl or vulture on the roof at such a time, as it during the day.
means calamity and especially the fall of the (2) Letting a shoe lie upside down, or letting house. The people say that the Maharaja of one shoe fall on the other, means a journey. Darbhanga abandoned a newly-built palace,
(3) It is a lucky thing to hear a crow cawing merely because early one morning he found a on the roof after breakfast, as it portends the kite sitting on it.
3 Or the pirnimanta BhAdrapada. I quote, however, at 40 gh. 41 p. socording to the equal space system, the amanta month, because that is the correct arrange- both these time being after apparent sunrise for Raje ment for the period and locality in question; see ante,
mahendri. Vol. XVII. p. 142.
$ In the Chellor grant, these twenty-seven years are • This caloulation is by the present Sdrya-Siddhanta. included as part of the reign of Danarnava, which is the And according to the same authority, the tithi ended at made out to have lasted for thirty years. 28 gh, 1 p., and the Uttark-Bhadrapadi nakshatra, ended
