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NANDIKESVARA; LANJIGESARA.
(from an ink-impression, line 19 f.; see also the I have probably made a mistake in identifying photograph, Pali, Sanskrit, and Old-Kanarese the Nandigrama of the Mahakata pillar inscrip- Inscriptions, No. 96) is, at first sight, -- [Saka)tion with the adjacent village of Nandik@svara varsha 1065neya Dumdubhi-sarivatsarada (page 9 above); for the reason that the latter Bhadrapada-sudhdha(ddha)-2- Sukravarad-amdu. village was known in Mangalêśa's period by its --"on Friday, the second tithi of the bright present name, though in a slightly different form. fortnight of the month) Bhadrapada, of the In his Old-Kanarese inscription on the rock Dundubhi samvatsara, which is the 1065th Saka outside the Badâmi Cave No. 3 (ante, Vol. X. p. 59), year." And the inscription proceeds to record it is mentioned as Lanjigêsara. While, in line that on this day there was established a Friday 13 of his Sanskrit inscription inside the same cave market (Sukravdrada sante); and to detail certain (id. p. 57, and Vol. VI. p. 363), the name occurs tolls and duties which were assigned by the people as Lanjisvara.
of the district, in a general assembly, for the The identity of the names was not recognised
angabhoga of the god Madhavêśvara. by me at the time. And in fact, from the occur- Here the given year is a current year. For, rence of Lasījà (with also a possible Labjika) as a by the southern luni-solar system, which is the only name of Lakshmi, I took Lanjiśvara, - for Lañjó. one applicable in this case, the Dundubhi samśvara, - to be a name of Vishnu, as a shrine for vatsara coincided with Saka-Samvat 1064 expired. whom the cave was made, and assumed that the
But in Baka-Samvat 1065 current, the at reference was to a village named after him (ante,
first sight) given tithi, Bhadrapada sukla 2, ended, Vol. X, p. 57). But it is plain now that Lañji
not on a Friday, but on Monday, 24th August, gêsara and Lanjiśvara are only Prakrit forms
A.D. 1142, at about 35 ghatis, 50 palas, after of Nandikêśvara and Nandisvara, names of Siva
mean sunrise (for Bombay). This result is with or of Nandi. It may as well be noted here, that
the month Ashadha intercalary, according to the I find that the Mahakata temples are in the lands
published Tables. And no better result can be of the village of Nandikêávara.
obtained by taking Bhadrapada itself (or any Nandigrama might reasonably be taken as subsequent month) as intercalary, instead of another name of the village of Nandikėśvara. Ashådha; for then the tithi sukla 2 of the interBut in that case, there is no reason why, having | calated (or natural) Bhadrapada would end at been granted to the cave-temple of Vishnu in about 13 gh. 30 p. on Sunday, 26th July, and Saka-Samvat 501, the same village should be could not be connected with the Friday even as a granted to the god Makutêgvaranátha only twenty- current tithi. four years later. As it is, it must be a village
In this case, the reference to the Friday which, like Sriyambåtaka and Vrihimukhagrama,
market shews that the mistake must be in the does not now exist.
tithi; not in the week-day. And a closer examinaThe two names, Nandikdávara and Lalijigosara tion of the ink-impression shews that, at some illustrate some interesting changes of letters. subsequent time, the number of the tithi was For the reverse of the change here from * to l, andoubtedly corrected from 2 into 6. The alterawe have the change from 1 to n in the word linga, tion is discernible in the photograph;' but not in such proper names às Lingappa and Ningappa, very conclusively. In the ink-impression, how. Sivalinga and Sivaninga, Gurulinga and Guru- ever, it can, on close examination, be recognised ninga. Owing to want of clearness in pronuncia- very clearly; and it is seen that the resulting 6 is tion, it is often very difficult to know whether the more like the figure as it stands in line 47 of this 1 is being used, or the ..
J. F. FLEET. record, in the date of the second part, than the 6
that occurs in the same line with the corrected CALCULATIONS OF HINDU DATES. tithi. And the corrected tithi Bhadrapada No. 40.
sukla 6, ended, as required, on Friday, 88th In the first part of a stone inscription at
August, A. D. 1142, at about 32 gh. 55 p. Xiraj, the chief town of the Miraj State in the This inscription, therefore, is of interest in so-called Southern Marath country, the date giving, (1) a current year of the Saka era ;' and
1 There is a Nandihal, about twenty miles north-west The second part of the inscription also illustrates of Bad Ami; but this is not likely to be it.
this. It refers itself to the time of the Silahira Mahd• It is a photograph of the original stone; not of the mandalesvara Vijayadityadêve. And it is dated in Baks. ink-impression.
Samvat 1066, the Budhirôdgfrin sarhwatsara, - which coincided with 1065fexpired and 1086 current.
