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of the dark half of Asvina, on Budha-dina or Wednonday. By the Southern System of the cycle the Prajapati sarh vatsara coincided with Saka 778 expired; and by the Northern System it commenoed, according to the Sarya-Siddhanta rule without bija, in Saka 772 expired, on the 26th November, A. D. 850, and ended in Saka 773 expired, on the 22nd November, A. D. 851. And accordingly, either the year 775 has been put wrongly in the date for 773, or the samvatsar Prajapati has been quoted incorrectly. Calcula. tion shews that we have to decide in favour of the former alternative. For, the second of the dark half of Asvina, parnimanta or amanta, did not fall on a Wednesday in either Saka 775 current or Saka 775 expired; bat by the amdnta scheme it did fall on a Wednesday, - the 16th September A. D. 851, -in Baka 778 expired. And Wednesday, the 18th September A. D. 881, is therefore the proper equivalent of the date, and this date fell in the Prajapati samvatsara by both the Southern and the Northern Systems of the Cycle."
Dates in which the year of the Cycle is quoted correctly, and the Saka year incorrectly, are not uncommon.
Thus, the Afíjanëri stone inscription of Sêuņadêva, ante, Vol. XII. p. 126, is dated in the Saka yenr 1063, and the Dundubhi sath vatsara, on the 16th lunar day of the bright half of Jyêshtha, on Boma or Monday, under the nakshatra Anu.
radha and the yoga Siddha. By the Southern System of the Cycle the Dundubhi samvatsara coincided with Saka 1064 expired, not with Saka 1063; and calculation shews that the year of the date was really Saka 1064 expired. For, the date corresponds, for Saka 1064 expired, to Monday, the 11th May A. D. 1142, when the 15th tithi of the bright half ended 13 h. 32 m., and when the nakshatra was Anuradha up to 13 h. 47 m, and the yoga Siddha commenced 2 h. 98 m., after mean sunrise.
Again, to quote only one other example, the Pâ¢nå stone inscription of the Yadava Simghana and his feudatories Sõidêva and Hêmâdidêva, which I have re-edited in Epigraphia Indica, is dated in the Saka year 1128 and the Prabhava samvatsara, on the full-moon tithi of Brävana, at the time of a lunar eclipse. By the Southern System of the Cycle the Prabhava sam vatear coincided with Saka 1129 expired, not with Saka 1128; and besides, if the year of the date were really Saka 1128 expired, the corresponding date would fall in A. D. 1906, and in that year there was no lunar eclipse at all. On the other hand, taking the year of the date to be Saka 1129 expired, which was the Prabhava samvatsara, the corresponding date will be the 9th August A. D. 1207, when there was a lunar eclipse which would have been just visible in Khånd66.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. A PECULIAR CUSTOM OF SUCCESSION. I was succeeded by his younger brother, the From a debate in the House of Lords on the Mahdrdja Drönasimha; the latter, by his younger Manipar matter (800 the Times of the 23rd June, brother, tho Mahdrája Dhruvasóns I. ; and tho 1891), it appears that “th. Fuocession to the latter, again, by his younger brother, the Mahd"&addi, or as we should say to the throne, is rdja Dharapatta : and the succession was then " based upon peculiar system. Where there is continued by Dharapatta's son Guhasena, and " series of brothers, they succeed one after his descendants. "another, and so the succession goes on until the Again, in the Chalukya family we may note "last of the brothers is exhausted, and then it is specially, in the Eastern Branch, the succession "his son, and not the son of the elder brother, after Jayasitha I. and Jayasimha II. (see page “who succeeds."
283 above); and in the Western Branch, the The Manipur Stato is one of recent origin. But succession after Satyasraya II., and again after #peculiar custom woh as this, - if it really Vikramaditya V. (see Mr. Fleet's Dynasties of exists, - must probably have some basis in the Kanarese Districts, p. 18-19). antiquity. And there are not wanting instances Instances oould, of course, be brought forward within the limits of India proper, which suggest to ghew that such a rule, if it existed, was at any that it may have been an occasional rule there in rate not invariably observed. But the cases early times.
quoted above are at least peculiar coincidenThus: - Among the Rulers of Valabhi (see ces. And they, and many other points in early ante, Vol. XV. p. 273), the Senapati Dharagêna Indian history, suggest that there may have
1 On that day, the second with of the dark hall Compare a similar date, of Baku 788 expired, disonded 10 h. 29 m. After mond sunrise.
nissea by Mr. Fleet, ante, Vol. XVII. p. 142, No. 10.
