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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1890.
Saturday, 8th June, A. D. 1252, at about 43 gh. torily. In this year, the amdnta Chaitra krishna 55 p. ; and at this conjunction also, there was no 15 ended, not on a Monday, but on Sunday, 30th eclipse of the sun.
March, A. D. 1253, at about 46 ghalis, 45 palas. In this instance, again, there is no apparent Nor can any better result be obtained by really reason for questioning the genuineness of the applying the given year as a current year, and record. But the word súryyagrahana is un | altering the name of the samvalsara from Pram. usually, and irregularly, placed before Sukra- din, No. 47, to Paridhavin, No. 46. For, in varad-andu; and I suspect that the grant was Saka-Samvat 1175 current (1174 expired), the really made on Tuesday, 20th June, A. D. 1251, amdnta Chaitra krishna 15 again ended, not on a and that the Friday refers, either to the writing Monday, but on Wednesday, 10th April, A. D. of the record, or to its being engraved on the 1252, at about 29 gh. 5 p.; beginning at about stone. The sentence may be made complete and 27 gh. 5 p. on the Tuesday. accurate, by inserting -nimittadinor.nimittav-dgi
Here, again, there are no apparent reasons for after stirya-grahana. The fact, however, still remains that there was no eclipse of the sun; in
doubting the authenticity of the record. And respect of this, I can only draw attention to the
the only explanation that suggests itself, is, that "observation" from
the grant was really made on Sunday, 30th March, Warren's Kalasankalita,
A. D, 1253; and that the Monday refers, either quoted at page 323 above.
to the writing of the record, or to its being No. 45.
engraved on the copper. Failing that, it would In the Bohatti copper-plate grant of the
seem that there is a mistake in the month; and same king Krishna, from the Dharwad District,
that the tithi should be Vaisakha krishna 13, published by me in the Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc.
which began on Monday, 28th April, A. D. 1253, Vol. XII pp. 4, 42 ff., the date (line 51 ff.) is -
at about 16 gh. 35 p., and ended on the Tuesday, pamchasaptaty.adhika-sat-ottara-sahasrake Saka
at about 16 gh. 15 p. varshê varttamanê Svasti Srimad- Yådavanårå
No. 46. yana-bhujava(ba)lapraudhapratápachakra vartti- In the Paithan copper-plate grant of the
Sanharadêva-varsheshu saptamê Pramadi. Dêvagiri-Yadava king Ramachandra, from the samvatsarê Chaitra-måsê krishna-pakshe ame. Nizam's Dominions, published by me in this vâsyAyam Sômavêrê, - "the Saka year one Journal, Vol. XIV. p. 314 ff., the date (line 62 f.) is thousand, increased by one hundred raised by - Sa(ba)kê cha ekadasagu trinavaty-adhikeshv= seventy-five, being current; Hail! ; in the years atitêshu 1193 varttamana-Prajapati-samvatsarof the glorious Yadava-Nårêyana, a universal Antargata-Magha-suddha-dvádasyår Vubu)dhe, emperor through the mature prowess of the -"in the Saka (era), when there have gone by strength of (his) arm, the glorious Kanharadeva, eleven (centuries) increased by ninety-three in the seventh (year, which is) the Pramadin san- (years), (or in figures) 1193; on the twelfth tithi vatsara, in the month Chaitra, in the dark fort
in the bright fortnight of the month) Magha in night, on the new-moon tithi, on Monday." And the current Prajậpati samvatsara; on Wednesthe charter proceeds to record that, on this day, day." And the charter proceeds to record that, the Mahdpradhana Chaundaraja made an agra.
aundaraja made an agra- | on this day, king Ramachandra granted the hara-grant to the Brahmans of the village of village of Vadathana, and two others, to a number Kukkanúru.
of Brahmans, as an agrahara. This date is of interest in giving an instance 1 Here, by the southern luni-solar system, the of the improper use of the word vartamana, Prajapati samvatsara coincided with Saka
current. For, by the southern luni-solar sys. Sarhvat 1194 current; so that the given year, 1193, tem, the Pramadin samvatsara coincided with is rightly qualified as an expired year. the given year, Saka-Sarivat 1175, only as an And in this year, Magha sukla 12 ended, as expired year.
required, on Wednesday, 13th January, A. D. The details, however, do not work out satisfac- | 1272, at about 36 ghatis, 14 palas.
NOTES AND QUERIES. CORRUPTIONS OF PORTUGUESE NAMES gone in the mouths of the Christianised Kölis and IN SALSETTE AND BASSEIN.
others upon whom they have been imposed. They The accompanying lists are in illustration of the have been compiled from the Criminal Returns of Corruption which Portuguese names have under. Magistrates exercising jurisdiction in the Salsette
