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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1893.
SHORT-Tun-na. (Cf. Singpho ki-tún, Tib. tung, Bhut. tun, Murmi túm, Magar tún, Kiranti đúng, Takpa, Gyami tông, Burmese to)
Jat
TALL MAN.-matamisa saut-ma. will be noticed that ma is prefixed to the word for man.) SHORT MAN.-matamisa tun-na. SMALL-Asina. (Cf. Singpho katsi, Burmese si, Karen 's, Agami-Naga ka-chê, Newar chi-ga, Chinese coll. siao.)
GREAT.-Tôm -ma. (Cf. Karen ds, Namsang-Nâga a-dong, Takpa t'én, Lushai, Southern, Chin t'auto be fat'.)
ROUND. Waing-waing nga-ma. (From the Burmese. Probably an adverbial form,-sec 'green.") SQUARE. Lésdaung. (Burmese.)
FLAT-Palat-k'ara. (Perhaps, Serpa li-blib, Bhut. le-blep, Gurung p'le-bá, Lepcha lép-bo.) LEVEL.-Nyi-tama. (Burmese. Both the words, 'flat' and 'level' are apparently adverbs.) FAT.-Tom-ma. See above, 'great.'
THIN. Asina. See above, 'small.'
WEARY (BE).-Naung-ma. (Cf. Burmese naung.)
THIRSTY (BE). We nga-ta-mat. (We water. Ngata is probably the Burmese ngut.) HUNGRY (BE).-Yok-k'uw-na.
MISCELLANEA.
DATES FROM SOUTH-INDIAN INSCRIPTIONS. Ante, Vol. XXI. p. 49, I have treated of some dates which, instead of quoting a lunar month, give us the sign of the zodiac in which the sun happened to be on the day intended by the date. I now find that this is a common practice in Southern India'; and to show this, I propose here to treat briefly of the dates of the inscriptions, edited by Dr. Hultzsch in South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. 1 shall begin with the regular dates, and shall first take those which leave no doubt whatever that the months, referred to in the dates, are the
solar months.
this day was the 13th of the bright half of Sråvana, and therefore the month of Sinha, i. e. Bhadrapada, quoted in the date, must be the solar month Bhadrapada.
By the southern luni-solar system the year Sukla is Saka 1271 expired, as stated in the date. In that year the Simha-sam kranti took place, and the solar month Bhadrapada began, 8 h. 30 m. after mean sunrise of the 30th July A.D. 1449. And the European equivalent of the date is Saturday, the 2nd August A. D. 1419, when the 13th tithi of the bright half ended 8 h. 43 m., and when the nakshatra was Uttarashaḍha for 10 h. 30 m., and the yoga Ayushmat for 4 h. 54 m. after mean sunrise. By the lunar calendar
2. On p. 70, an inscription on a stone at Arappakkam is dated:-On Wednesday, the twelfth lunar day of the latter half of the month of Kumbhs of the Akshayu-samvatsara, which was current after the Saka year 1488 (had passed).
By the southern luni-solar system the year. Akshaya (or Kshaya) is Saka 1485 expired, as stated in the date. In that year the Kumbhasamkranti took place, and the solar month Phâlguna began, 7 h. 58 m. after mean suurise of the 27th January A.D. 1567. And the European
1.-On p. 111, an inscription on the cast wall of the Somanâthôśvara temple at Padavêdu is
dated:On the day of (the nakshatra) Uttiradam equivalent of the date is Wednesday, the 5th (i. e., Uttarashadha), which corresponds to the yoga Ayushmat and to Saturday, the thirteenth lunar day of the former half of the month of Simha of the Sukla year, which was current after the Saka year 1371 (had passed).'
February A. D. 1567, when the 12th tithi of the dark half ended 20 h. 54 m. after mean sunrise. By the lunar calendar this was the 12th of the dark half of the amanta Mâgha.
3. On p. 85, an inscription on a stone, built into the floor of the court-yard of the Virinchipuram temple, is dated: On Thursday, the day of (the nakshatra) Punarvasu, which corresponds to the seventh lunar day of the former half of the month of Mêsha of the Saumya year. which was current after the Sâlivâlia-Saka year 1471 (had passed)."
By the southern luni-solar system the year Saumya is Saka 1471 expired, as stated in the date. In that year the Mêsha-sam kranti took
1 The same practice is still followed in Orissa. See ante, Vol. I. p. 64.
