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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1890.
(year in the centuries of years that have gone ly from the time of the Saka king; on sccount of that same Vyatip&ta (yoga).” The following portion of the record is rather indistinct in the photograph. But, combining with the photowrnph the transcription given in the Elliot Ms. Collection, Vol. II. p. 290 ff., it appears that on this occasion, while the Mahdman.lalisvara Raya. deva was residing happily at Hallaharadakuppa, and, on account of some victory, was bathing and was making gifts to the goddess Tungabhadradevi, with the ancred water of the Tungabhadri he washed the foet of Siddhantichandrabhashana, the 8th in ich trya of the god Svayaınbhaprasannatrikateśvara, and gave a grant of land for the purposes of the rites of that god.
By the southern luni-solar system, the Sid. dharthin samvatsara coincided with Saka. Samvat 1122 current, i.e. with the given year as an expired year. In this year the interpalary month, according to the Tables of Mr. Cowasjee Pacell and Gen. Sir A. Cunningham, was Jyêshtha. But the record indicates Ashi. dha as the intercalary month. And, with Prof. K. L. Chhatre's Tables, the given tithi, sukla 8 of the first Åshedha, - the intercalated month, according to the present custoin of Southern India, — onded on Thursday, 3rd June, A.D. 1199, at about 57 ghatis, 41 palas, after mean sunrise (for Bombay);1 beginning at about 57 gh. 59 p. on the Wednesday. With Prof. Jacobi's Tables the results are very nearly the same; being, for the beginning-time, 23 hrs. 45 min. 'for Ujjain), = 59 gh. 22-5 p., on the Wednesday ; and for the ending time, 23 hrs. 32 min., = 58 yh. 59 p., on the Thursday. And at sunrise on the Thursday there was the Vyatipata yoga, ending at 14 hrs. 3 min., = 35 gh. 7-5 p., after mean sunrise. The given tithi is here quoted with the week-day on which it ended ; in ac. cordance with the rules in the Nirnayasindir and the Dharmasindhusúra ; of which the purport, so far as the eighth tithi of the bright fortnight is concerned, is that for any ceremony it is to be taken with the week-day on which it is joined by the ninth tithi. In the present in. stance the date is distinctly that of the ceremony of making the grant; not that of writing or preparing the record.
This date is of interest in including a distinct specification of the intercalary nature of a given month; and also in giving an instance in
which the contemporaneous record differs from the published Tables, in respect of the name of the intercalated month.
No. 37. Another instance from Southern India, in which the intercalary nature of a given month is distinctly specified, is a stone inscription of the Mahamandalesvars Vijayapandysdôva at Davangere, in Maisur; in which the date (from the photograph, P. 8. anil
0.-K. Inscrs. No. 141, line 16 f.) runs - Grimat-Saka -varshada 1091neya Virodhi-sarvat. sarada dvitiya-Sravana-buddha-punnami-Sóma. Vårad-amdu, - " on Monday, the full-moon tithi of the bright fortnight of the second Bravaņa of the Virodhin samvatsara, which is the 1091st of the glorious Saka years." The record states that on this day there were given again, t. the god Avimuktôśvara, some lands which had formerly been granted and had been confiscated.
The original passage is perfectly clear; and it cannot in any respect be read otherwise than as I have given it above. But nevertheless, the details of this date do not work out satisfac. torily.
By the southern luni-solar system, which is the only one that can apply in this case, the Virodhin samvatsara coincided with SakaSamvat 1092 current, i.e. with the given year as an expired year. And for this year the Tables, as well as the contemporaneous record, shew Bravaņa as the intercalary month. But the given tithi, the full-moon of the second Srivana, - the natural month according to th. present custom of Southern India, - ended, not on a Monday, but on Saturday, 9th August, A.D. 1169, at about 33 ghatis, 30 palas, after mean eunrise (for Bombay).
There is, however, no apparent reason for doubting the authenticity of the record. And some explanation or other should be found for the discrepancy in the result. Of course the fullmoon tithi of the first Srivana in this case could not possibly end on a Monday, for the reason that it must have fallen twenty-nine or thirty days before the Saturday on which the full-moon tithi of the second Sravana ended; and as a matter of fact it ended on Thursday, 10th July, at about 54 gh. 43 p. Again, though it may be noted that the full-moon tithi of the next month, Bhadrapada, did end on the given week-day, viz.
1 The times here are for Bombay, all through. For Gadag, they would be about 28 palas later. In future calculations I purpose quoting only the times for Bombay u Ujjain, according to the Tables that are used ; unless the
difference for the locality to which a record belonge, causes, or might cause, a difference in the resulting week-day; or unless for any other special reasons.
Read erfmach-chhaka.
