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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1893
which is the day of the nakshatra) Revati and Maghn of Saka 1290 expired the moon cas in Monday, the seventh lunar day of the former Rühiņi at sunrise of Thursday, the 18th January half of the month of Karkataka, which was A.D. 1369, which was the 10th of the bright half current after the Saka year one thousand one of the lunar Máyha: and that the whole year hundred and eighty (had passed).'
Saka 1290 expired contains no Tuesday, either in In Saka 1180 expired the sun was in the sign the bright or in the dark halt of a lunar month, Karkata, or, in other words, the solar Srivana on which the moon was in Rohini. lusted, from 11 h. 5 m. after mein sunrise of the 10.-Differing from the above, a date on p. 84, 07th June to 22 h. 21 m. after inean sunrise of from an inscription inside the front Gopura of the the 28th July A. D. 1238. During this time Virinchipuram temple, gives us the solar month, there was one 7th tithi of the bright half, which and both the day of that solar inonth and the commenced 3 h. 58 m. after mean sunrise of Mon. lunar day, without stating, however, whether the day, the 8th July, und ended 1 h 46 m. after mean lunar dny belonged to the bright or to the dark Bulbrise of Tuesday, the 9th July. Here we might half. Dr. Hultzsch translates the date thug 'On feel inclined to assume that the tithi had been the day of the nakshatra) Anusham i.e., Anurdjoined with the day on which it commenced; but dha), which corresponds to Wednesday, the sixth on Monday, the 8th July, the moon was in Hasta lunar day, the 3rd (solar day), of the month of (13) and Chitra (14), not in Rêvati (27):-Under Pangugi (ie., Phalguni) of the Visviiva1.eu year, any circumstances the date appears to contain an which was current after the Saka year 1947 (had error, but what the exact error may be I am un- passed).' able to decide. If the word Karkataka of the Rutha uthal.
By the southern luni-solar system the year date were a mistake for Karttigai, tbe 7th tithi of Visvavasu is Saka 1347 expired, as stated in the the bright half would end on Monday,--the 4th date. The month of Panguni is the solar Chaitra November A. D. 1258, which, by the northern of the northern calendar; and the nakshatra
underw Marga-gudi 7 and also the 7th day AnuradhA.joined. in or near Phålguna, with the of the solar Mirasiraha; but on that Monday I sixth lunar day. shows that this sixth lunar day the nakshatra was Sravislitha (23), not Kovati I belonged to the dark half of the lunar month. In 10 Aonin. if in Saka 180 expired we were to Saka 13.47 expired the Mins-samkranti took search for a Monday on which the moon was in
place, and the solar Chaitra began, 15 h. 42 m, Ròvati and on which also a 7th tithi ended, we
after mean sunrise of the 24th Februnry A. D. should find this to have been the case on Monday, 1426 ; and the European equivalent of the date is the 24th June A. D. 1259; but that Monday was
Wednesday, the 27th February A. D. 1426, the 7th of the dark half, and on it the sun was in when the 6th tithi of the dark half (of the aminta the sign Mithuna.
Phålguna) ended 20 h. 30 m., and when the moon 9.-On p. 125, an inscription on a pillar in the was in Anuradha for about 23 h. after mean Mandapa in front of the Rajasimhavarmêśvara sunrise. shrine at KAfichipuram is dated On the day of Another date in Dr. Hultzsch's volume (p. 60. (the nakshatra) Tôr (i.e., Rohint), which cor verse 21), which also, like the dates 1-9, quotes a responds to Tuesday, the seventh lunar day of sign of the zodiac, may be omitted here, because the latter half of the month of Makara of the it has been already treated by Dr. Fleet, ante, Vol. Kilaka year, which was current (during the XIX. p. 426. But I would take this opportunity reign) of Kambanna-udaiyar.'
to say a few words about the date of the copperAccording to Dr. Hultzsch, the Kilaka year plate in the possession of the Syrian Christmust here be Saka 1291 (current, or 1290 expired). isns at Kottayam which was first given in this In that year the sun was in Makars, or, in other
Journal (Vol. I. p. 229) by the late Dr. Burnell, words, the solar Magha lasted, from 15 h. 27 m. and which has again been drawn attention to by after menn sunrise of the 26th December A. D. Dr. Hultzsch, ante, Vol. XX. pp. 287 and 289. 1368 to 2 h. 21 m. after mean sunrise of the 25th According to Dr. Hultesch's translation the date January A. D. 1369. And during this time the is this On the day of the nakshatra) Rohini, 7th tithi of the dark half ended 7 h. 5 m, after Saturday, the twenty-first of the month of Mina mean sunrise of Monday, the 1st January A. D. (of the year in which) Jupiter (wus) in Makara 1369, when the moon was in Chitra (14), not in (within the time) during which the sacred rule of Rõhiņi (4), and which clearly is not the day of the the illustrious Vira-Raghava.chakravartin... date.--I am unable to suggest any correction of was current.' this date, and can only say that during the solar | Dr. Burnell, when writing about this date,
2 The name of the Jovian year has evidently been omitted from this date through an oversight.
