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Dates which work out satisfactorily only when the day of the date is taken to have been joined with the tithi commencing on it. 168. V. 1050. Professor Bhandarkar's Second Report (1882-83), p. 228. Date of the composition of Amitagati's Subhashita-ratna-saihdoha, of the reign of Muñja of Dhârâ :
THE VIKRAMA ERA.
Samaraḍhe pûta-tridasa-vasatim Vikrama-nripe
sahasrê varshanam prabhavati hi pañchâśad-adhikê samâptam pañchamyâm-avati dharanim Muñja-nṛipatau
site pakshê Paushê budha-hitam-idam śûstram-anagham ||
Although the author does not actually say that he completed his work on Budha or Wednesday, yet by the expression budha-hitam he undoubtedly suggests that such was really the case; and calculating the possible equivalents of the date, we find :
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V. 1050 current: Friday, 2 December, A. D. 992.
V. 1050 expired: the 5th tithi of the bright half commenced on Wednesday, 20 December, A. D. 993, 2 h. 16 m. after mean sunrise, and ended on Thursday, 21 December, 2 h. 50 m. after mean sunrise.
169. V. 1078. Bhôjadêva of Dhârâ :
Amitigati therefore completed his work on Wednesday, 20 December, A. D. 993 (civilly Pausha-sudi 4), after the commencement of the 5th tithi.
ante, Vol. VI. p. 53. Copper-plate inscription of the Mahárájáhiraja
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(Line 8).. .... atit-âshṭasaptaty-adhika-sahasrika-samvatsarê Magh-âsita-tṛitlyâyâm I Ravav=udagayana-parvvani.... śrimad-Dhârâyâm-avasthitair-asmâbhiḥ . . .
V. 1078 current, pûrgimânta: 10 Wednesday, 4 January, A. D. 1021; Uttarayana-samkranti on 23 December, A. D. 1020.
V. 1078 expired, purnimanta: the third tithi of the dark half commenced on Sunday, 24 December, A. D. 1021, 3 h. 24 m. after mean sunrise, and ended on Monday, 25 December, 4 h. 7 m. after mean sunrise. And the Uttarayana-samkranti took place on Saturday, 23 December, 20 h. 31 m. after mean sunrise.
There can be no doubt that Sunday, 24 December, A. D. 1021, is the proper equivalent of the date, and that the ceremonies connected with the Uttarayana-samkrânti, which took place late on Saturday, had to be deferred to the Sunday, and were permitted to be performed on that day even after the commencement of the third tithi; and the Sunday may, therefore, have been joined here with the (third) tithi which commenced on it. At the same time, considering that the Uttarayana-samkrânti took place during the second tithi and that the Sunday also was civilly the second, I cannot suppress the suspicion that the word tritiyáyám of the date may have been put erroneously for dritiyayam.
(In lines 30 and 31 the same inscription contains the dateSamvat 1078 Chaitra-sudi 14.
This date does not admit of verification, but it clearly fell later than the other date; and it may be pointed out that, if the figures for the year of the second date are correctly given, the year in which the first date fell must have commenced with the month Kârttika.)
170. - V. 1145. Archaeol. Surv. of India, Vol. XX. p. 99, and Plate xxii. Stone inscription from a temple at Dubkund' (south-west of Gwâlior), of the reign of the Maharajadhiraja Vikramasimha (?): -
(Line 61)... Samvat 1145 Bhadrapada-sudi 3 Soma-dinė ||
The possible equivalents for V. 1145 and the surrounding years are: Northern V. 1144 current: Saturday, 15 August, A. D. 1086. Northern V. 1145 current: Wednesday, 4 August, A. D. 1087.
10 In Magha, the Uttarayana-samkranti can take place only during the dark half of the purnimanta month.
