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APRIL, 1893.]
NOTES ON TUL'SI DAS.
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(6) Kárttikádi year. KY. 4686 = (3) 8.928 [13] 21 sol. Vaisakha = (5) 29.11 900
(1) 8.03 908 13 19 1 4th March
21
8-22 48th March = 17th April. Therefore the 9th tithi expired on Sunday the 17th April 1586 A. D.
B. Sam. 1642 current = KY. 4685. KY, 4600
= (0) 17.6015 [12] ind. = 1.88 85 years = (2) 10-52 747 [1] ind. su. 9 = 10-88 KY. 4685 = (2) 28-12 762 [13] 13th sol. Vaisakha = (3) 10-17 363
(5) 8.29 128 13 .71
14th March
13
9-00 40th March = 9th April 1584, A. D. Add for longitude of Oadh 1 gh. 4 p.
Therefore the ninth tithi expired at 1 ghaţiká 4 palas after sunrise at Oudh, on Thursday, April 9th, 1584 A. D.
Accordingly, if the date is correct, Tul'si Dag, in dating the Bat'sai used the current, not the expired, Sambat year. Paņdit Sudhakara Dvivedi points out that this is against the custom of the poet, and throws the greatest suspicion on the genuineness of the verse in which it occurs. It may be added that, if we take the Saka era, the date comes out correctly, as Thursday May 5, 1720 A. D. It is unnecessary to give the calculations.
(c) Date of composition of the Parbati Mangal. Authority, Pár. I., 5.
Jaya Sambata Phaguna sudi pánchai Guru-dinu!
Asuni birachaun mangala suni sukha chhinu chhinu 11 "I compose this (Párbati) Mangal, the hearing of which gives pleasure at every moment, in Jaya Sambat, Phálguna sudi. 5, Thursday, in Asvini."
Jaya Sambat is one of the years of the sixty-year cycle of Jupiter, and as Tul'si Dâs died in Sambat 1680, we must search for the Jaya which fell about the middle of the 17th Sambat century.
A reference to Prof. Jacobi's tables will show that Jaya Sambat was current on the first day of Samvat 1643 (K. Y. 4687).? A reference to Table VIII. will at once show that Phálguna Sudi 5, Sambat 1643 must have fallen after the expiry of Jaya, or in the year Manmatha. Therefore the Phálguna Sudi 5 of Jaya must have fallen in Sam. 1642, But in sambat 1642, Phálguna Sudi 5 fell on Sunday, not Thursday. It is not necessary to give the calculations.
The reading of the printed Editions is birachahs, but Pandit SudhAkara Dvivedi informs me that the best MSS. have birachaus. (K, Y. 4600 = 33.82 (Table VI.
87 = 28.0179 (Table VII.)
4687 =
1'8879
