Indian Antiquary Vol 20

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 21

JANUARY, 1891.)
THE EASTERN CHALUKYA CHRONOLOGY
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Alternative List of the Eastern Chalukya Kings; taking Chaitra sukla 1 as the First Day of each Regnal Year.
Order and Names.
Length of
Reign. Y. M. D.
Current Saks Years.
Length of Reign.
Order and Names.
- Current Baka
Years.
Y. M. D.
krishna 19 of Saka
1; Vishụuvardhana I. ... 18 0 0 638 to 555||20; Bhima III................ 080 (849 to 850) 2; Jayasimha I........... 30 0 0556 to 58521; Yuddhamalla II. ......... 7 0 0 850 to 856 3; Indra-Bhattaraka .....007 (585). 22; Chalukya-Bhima II. ... 12 0 0 857 to 868 4; Vishnuvardhana II... 900586 to 59423; Amma II.; the date of
his coronation was the 5; Mangi-Yuvaraja .......25 0 0/595 to 619|| amcinta Mârgasirsha 6; Jayasitha II. ......... 13 0 0 620 to 632 Samvat 868 current... 25 00 868 to 892 7; Kokkili ................. 06 0(632) || 24; Danarnava.................. 3 0 0 893 to 895 8, Vishnuvardhana III.. 37 0 0 692 to 668 |An unexplained interval;
according to the records, 9; Vijayaditya I.......... 18 00
7 of twenty-seven years ;
in reality, of ............... 30 0 0 896 to 925 10; Vishņuvardhana IV.. 86 0 0
25; Saktiverman............. 12 0 0 926 to 937 11, Vijayaditya II.......... 48 00
26; Vimaldditya ........... 7.00 938 to 944 12; Vishnuvardhana V... 1 80
27; RAjaraja I. ; the date 13; Vijayaditya III. ...... 44 00 769 to 812
of his coronation was
the amanta Bhadra14; Chalukya-Bhima I.... 30 0 0 812 to 841 pada kşishna 2 of
Saka-Samvat 945 15; Vijayaditya IV. ...... 08 0 (841 to 842) current ................... 41 0 0 945 to 985 16; Amma ................... 7 0 0 842 to 84828 ; Kulottunga-Choda deva
..... 49 0 0 986 to 1034 .17; Vijayaditya V......... 0 0 15 (848)
|(29; Vikrama-Choda ......... 15 0 0 1035 to 1049 18; Tlapa................. 0 1 0 (848)
30; Kulottunga-Choda deva 19; Vikramaditya II....... 011 (848 to 849)||
..... 1050 to ......
to 769
1.
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There is, however, another way of looking at the matter, suggested partly by the manner in which the reigns are mostly stated only in even years, and partly by the results for the dates of Vishộuvardhana I. and his grandson. It is that, irrespective of the actual daya of their accession or coronation, the Eastern Chalukya kings may possibly have been in the habit of using regnal years coinciding with the luni-solar years, each commencing with Chaitra bukla 1 ;19 or at any rate, and with still greater probability, that this may be the real manner in which we ought to apply the details given in the later grants commencing with K.40 The two dates of Vishộuvardhana II. adapt themgelves just as well
16 We have a record of his time, dated in Bala Saravat 1056. In respect of the details of the date, there are some dimoulties, which will be noticed further on.
1. It may be noted, however, that Vijay Aditya's Aihole record, in which Rbvayujn is specified as the third month in his thirteenth year (see ante, Vol. XIX. p. 187), seems to prove that, if the Western Chalukya kingu had any ired point for the commencement of their regnal years, it was not Chaitra sukla 1.
* In the neighbouring country of Orissa, there is a custom of this kind, of regnal years commencing with Bhadrapada kukla 11 or 12 (89e a note on "The Onko Reckoning of Orissa ;" ante, Vol. XIX. p. 356 f.) The period to which its origin can be carried back, is not yet know. But the manner in which the month is specified in the Chipurapelle grant of Vishnuvardhana I. shows, - whatever may be ita exaet application, that this system of years, commending in Bb Adrapada, did not originate with the Eastern Chalukyas.