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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[NOVEMBER, 1891.
And, for reasons which will shortly become evident, I should be glad enough if I could see iny way to adopting definitely Tuesday as the intended week-day, with the result of Tuesday, 31st January, A. D. 1245. But my opinion is, as before, that the writer really did intend some, " on Monday. And it will be seen that this view places this date on, in all respects, absolutely the same footing with the other dates of this class.
I adopt, then, the correction sme, "on Monday ;” and, now as before, I take the equivalent English date to be Monday, 19th February, A. D. 1248. Then, Phâlgana sakla 2 of Valabhi-Samvat 927, falling in A. D. 1246, was Phålguna śukla 2 of 'Saka-Samvat 1168 current. And Phålguna śukla 2 of Valabb1-Samvat I would be Phålguna śukla 2 of Saka-Samvat 242 current; and, as is the case under E. above, it would fall one month before the initial day that applies in the case of A., B., and C. above.
H. - The Verawal inscription of Valabhi-Samvat 945. The last available date that we have, is contained in a stone inscription, at the same temple of Harsataddvi, which refers itself to the reign of the Chaulukya king Arjunadeva.5
H. Here the details (loc. cit. p. 84) are :- The year of the prophet Muhammad, i.e. the Hijra year, 662; Vikrama-Samvat 1320; Valabhi-Samvat 945; Simha-Samvat 151; the month Åshadha; the dark fortnight; the (civil) day 13, (and with it the thirteenth tithi); Sunday.
Irrespective of the results obtained from the other Gupta and Valabhi dates, the exact period in which the equivalent of this date must be found, is fixed by the quotation of the Hijra year 662, which commenced on the 4th November, A. D. 1263, and ended on the 23rd October, A. D. 1264. The month Åshidha corresponding ordinarily to June-July, it can here lie only in A. D. 1264 ; and the equivalent of the given date can be found only in that year. In that year, the month Ashâdha was intercalary; and, taking both the pirnimánta and the amánta scheme, it spread over five fortnights, extending from the 13th May (=the first purnimanta Åshidha krishna 1) to the 24th July (= the second amánta Ashadha krishna 30). And there are two cases in which the tithi Ashidha kşishna 13 can be connected with a Sunday; (1) the first prirņimanta Åshadha krishga 13 ended at about 13 gh. 5 p. (for Bombay) on Sunday, 25th May; and (2) the second piirņimánta and the first amánta Ashadba kļishna 13, ending at abont 30 gh. 10 p. on Monday, 23rd June, began at about 35 gh. 50 p. on Sunday, 22nd June.
The result of Sunday, 22nd June, however, is distinctly inadmissible. In the first place, the Sunday can here be coupled with the given tithi, only if the latter is used as a current tithi,. with the week dny on which it began; and even from the Hindu point of view there would be a difficulty about this, as it began appreciably after actual sunset on that day. But further, the inscription, though written in Sanskrit, and though now standing in, I presume, & Hindu temple, is a purely Muhammadan record. "The purpose of the inscription" as epitomised by Dr. Hultzsch (ante, Vol. XI. p. 242), “is to grant the income from a piece of land covered with "houses, from an oil-mill, and from two shops, to a Masjid built by the donor, & Muhammadan “shipowner from Hurmaz, the small island after which the straits leading out of the Persian “Gulf are called, and which was then under the sway of the Amîr Ruknu'd-dîn. The grant "provides also for the expenses of particular religious festivals to be celebrated by the Shiite "Sailors of Sômanatha Pâthay. The eventual surplus is to be made over to the holy district " of Makka and Madina. The Musalmîn congregations of Sômanatha Pathaņ are appointed " trustees." And under these circumstances it cannot well be questioned that any particular use of the Hindu tithi, as a current tithi, cannot be concerned in the matter at all. The tithi was plainly simply the ordinary ended tithi of the day, according to common everyday use.
Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji obtained two other dates in the Valahbi era; but the details are not available. Of one of them a hand-copy was shewn by him to me; it consists of one line, beginning Sarh 843; the remaining eloven or twelve letters are not very intelligible; but they certainly do not contain any further details of the date. of the other he shewed me a pencil-rubbing; it is a Sanskrit inscription, in Devanagart characters, of the time of Vira-Kumârapala, consisting of Afty-four lines, each of about fifty-eight letters, the date is in the last line, and all of it that is extant, consists of the syllables Valabhathuat 850 Scha.....
