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MISCELLANEA. A DOUBTFUL CHAULUKYA GRANT. thirteenth, which commenced at about 35 gh. 10 p. In the Chaulukya copper-plato grant which
ar-plata rant which on the Sunday. And there are no means by I have edited in this Journal, Vol. XVIII. p. 108 which the eleventh tithi can be extended to the ff., the date (lines 1 f., 5) is – gar vat 93 Chaitra Sunday, or by which the parvakdla of the sansu di 11 Ravau ady=éha śrîmad-Anahilapatake kranti can be connected with the eleventh tithi ...... adya samkramti-parvvani, — "the year In northern Vikrama-Samvat 1093 expired, and 93, (the month) Chaitra, the bright fortnight, the
southern Vikrama-Samvat 1093 current, Chaitra (civil) day 11 and the eleventh tithi), today,
sukla 11 ended at about 13 gh. 45 p. on Thursday, here at the famous (city of) Anahilapataka, 11th March, A.D. 1036, and this was twelve days ...... today, at the festival of a sankranti."
before the Mêsha-Samkranti, which occurred at I was editing at the same time a grant of about 3 gh. 30 p. on Tuesday, 23rd March. Bhimadeva II., which is dated expressly in Vi.
In southern Vikrama-Samvat 1093 expired, krama-Samvat 1266 and Simha-Samvat 96 (id. p.
Chaitra sukla 11 ended at about 17 gh. 10 p. on 110 1.). And it seemed plain that the year 93 of
Wednesday, 30th March, A.D. 1037; and this was the grant under notice must be Simha-samvat
seven days after the Mesha-Sankranti, which 98; with the result that the Bhimadeva of this
occurred at about 19 ghat's on Wednesday, 23rd vrant also was Bhimadeva II. But, in giving
March. the English equivalent of the details, I had to point out that a correct result could be obtained And Mr. Sh. B. Dikshit, whom I consulted only by assuming a mistake in the record, and as to the possibility of obtaining any better by altering fu, the bright fortnight,' into ba, result with the first of the above three years, has • the bright fortnight'; and this, in spite of the
found that, as a matter of fact, from Sakafact that the original is perfectly distinct, so that
Samvat 851 to 1201, there is only one year in it is not possible to read any of the details other. which the Mesha-Sankranti, - the only savikranti wise than as I have given them above.
that can be connected with the given tithi, - Some little time back, however, Dr. Hultzsch
took place on Chaitra sukla 11, and on a Sunday.
The year is Saka-Samvat 863 current; when brought to my notice his view that the grant in question should be a record, not of Bhimadeva
Chaitra sukla 11 ended at about 43 gh. 10 p., and II., but of his ancestor, Bhimadev. I. The
the Meeha-Sankranti occurred at about 13 gh. grounds for this view are:-(1) The identity of
5 p., on Sunday, 22nd March, A.D. 940. But this the person who wrote this grant, vis. the Kayas
date, belonging to southern Vikrama-Samvat tha Vatêsvara, the son of Kanchana, with the
997 current, or northern Vikrama-Samvat 998 person who wrote the Radhanpur grant of Bhi
current cannot in any way be connected with the madôva I. that is expressly dated in Vikrama
reign of Bhimadova I. Samvat 1086 (ante, Vol. VI. p. 193). (2) The Accordingly, even with Dr. Hultzsch's suggesidentity, in each case, of the Dataka, vix. the tion, we must assume a mistake in the record ; Mahdeándhivigrahika Chandasarman. And (3) in writing the eleventh tithi, instead of the twelfth the probability that the same Vatêsvara is the expired, or thirteenth current. person who is mentioned as the father of the
If this grant of the year 98 is to be regarded writer of a grant, recently obtained by Dr.
As a spurious document, - for which view, howHultzech, of Karna I., the son and successor of
ever, apart from the qnestion of the identification Bhimadêva I.
of Vatêsvara and Chandasarman, there are no From this it would follow that the grant under apparent grounds, except the impossibility of notice is in reality intended to be dated in
obtaining a correct result for the date as it stands. Vikrama-Samvat 1098, and gives an instance of - then I am inclined to think that it was con" omitted hundreds."
cocted on the basis of the grant of Bhimadeva I. The results for the date, however, are not such of Vikrama-Samvat 1086, or of some document as to prove this. They are as follows:
ver similary to that; but that it was really In northern Vikrama-Samvat 1093 current,
intended to be a charter of Bhimadeva II., dated Chaitra sukla 11 ended on Saturday, 22nd March,
in the Simha era. A. D. 1035, at about 37 ghaths, 10 palas, after But it is equally possible that the spurious mean sunrise (for Bombay). The Mesha-Sam- record is the grant of Vikrama-samvat 1086. krinti occurred on the Sunday, at about 48 The only point against this view, is, the possibility ghatis. But the tithi then current was the of identifying the Vateśvara who is mentioned in
