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tathå sri-Sinha-sam 151 varshe Ashâdha- According to the List of Antiquarian Remains vadi 13 Ravau
Bo. Pres. p. 312 (and Archæol. Survey of West. and the equivalent of this date for the expired India, No. 2, p. 33), a short inscription at Girnar Karttikadi Vikrama year 1320, is Sunday, the is dated25th May A. D. 1264. Here the difference San 59 varshê Chaitra-vadi 2 Sômê. between the Simha year and the Christian year
Excepting, of course, dates of the Saptarshi is again 1113. The difference between the Simha
era, I have not hitherto met with a single date year and the Vikrama year put down in the date
from which the figures for the centuries of the is only 1169; but as the Vikrama year of the date
year of the date have been purposely omitted ; is the expired Karttikddi year 1320, which for the
and therefore it does not seem to me at all month of Ashadha is equivalent to the Chaitradi
improbable that the year 58 of this date may have or Ashadhadi year 1321, we may say that here
to be referred to the Simha era. Now, assuming too, the difference between the Sitha year and
the date to be a Simha date, the only possible the expired Chaitrddi or Ashadhádi Vikrama
equivalent of it would be Monday, the 13th year is 1170. Compared with the first date, the
March A. D. 1172, which was almost completely date apparently proves that the Simha year was
filled by the second tithi of the dark half of the not a Karttikadi year, but began either with
amánta Chaitra. Monday, the 13th March A. D. Chaitra or with Ashâlha.
1172, however, belongs to the month Chaitra of (3). A stone inscription at Mangrol in Kâțhia- either the Asha hadi or the Karttikadi (but not vad, of the reign of the Chauluk ya Kumarapala, the Chaitridi) Vikrama year (58 + 1170 - ) 1228 is dated
expired; and, since we already have seen that the érimad- Vikrama-samvat 1202 tathể srl.
Simba year was not a Kárttikddi year, it would, Sim ha-samvat 32 Aśvina-vadi 13 Some.
with necessity, follow from this date that the
Simha year commenced with the month Here the difference between the Simha year
Åshadha, (and was perhaps the original Ashaand the Vikrama year put down in the date is
dhddi year). again 1170, and, judging from the preceding dates, the Vikrama year 1202 should be the
4.--Of the Chalukya Vikrams Varsha or expired Chaitrádi or Ashadhadi Vikrama year
era of the Western Chalukya king, Vikramaditya 1302. The preceding dates shew besides that the
VI., Dr. Fleet has treated ante, Vol. VIII. pp. 187corresponding European date should fall in A. D.
193. My examination of a large number of dates (32 + 1113 - ) 1145. When treating of this date
of this era has yielded the results that, whatever before, I indicated that, taking the date purely
may have been the day of the coronation of as a Vikrama date, the choice, as regards its
Vikramaditya VI., the years of the dates and European equivalent, would lie between Monday,
the Jovian years quoted with them coincide the 28th August A. D. 1144, when the 13th tithi
with the lunar Saka years, beginning with of the dark halt ended 16 h. 30 m. after mean
Chaitra-sudi 1 and ending with Phålguna-vadi sunrise, and Monday, the 15th October A. D. 1145
15; and that a Châlukya Vikrama year may be when the same tithi commenced 3 h. 58 m. after
converted into the corresponding expired Saka mean sunrise. Irrespectively of any considera
year by the simple addition of 997. This may be tions connected with the Simha era, the first of
seen from the following regular dates :these two possible equivalents seemed objection (1). The Yêwar tablet (ante, Vol. VIII. p. 20) able because it would necessitate the assumption is dated : ... Chalukya-Vikrama-varehada that the Vikrama year of the date had been 2neya Pimgala-samvatsarada Sravana-paurņņaquoted as a current year. Now a comparison of masi Aditya-våra somagrahapa-mah&parvvathe two other Sinn ha dates will shew that we must nimittadim. The corresponding date, for Saka definitely decide in favour of Monday, the 15th (2+997=) 999 expired, which by the southern luniOctober A.D. 1145, as the proper equivalent of solar system was the year Pingala, is Sunday, this date, notwithstanding the fact that the tithi the 6th August A. D. 1077, when there was a of the date did not end, but commenced on that lunar eclipse 21 h. 22 m. after mean sunrise. day.
(2). A stone-tablet at Kurtakoti (ante, Vol. The three dates shew that the Simha year was VIII. p. 190, No. 9) is dated : ... Chå.- Vi.. not a Karttikadi year, but they leave it uncertain varsha[da] 7neya Dundubhi-samvatsarada whether it began with Chaitra or Åshadha. The Pushya-suddha-tadige Adityaváram-uttarayaquestion would have to be decided in favour of the ņa-samkranti-vyati påtad-amdu. In Saka Ashadhadi year, if the following date could be (7+997=) 1004 expired, the year Dundubhi, the referred with confidence to the Simha era. | 3rd tithi of the bright half of Pausha ended
