________________
252
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
To the dates given by Prof. Kielhorn, I can add the following:
An inscription on a virgal at Hali in the Belgaum District is dated on Vadḍavara, the fifth tithi of the dark fortnight of Sravana of the Sarvajit samvatsara, which was the thirty-second year of the Chalukya-Vikrama-kâla. Here, Sarvajit coincided with Saka-Sainvat 1030 current. And the given tithi, beginning at about 48 gh 40 p., 19 hrs. 28 min., after mean sunrise, on the Friday, ended at 49 gh. 45 p., 19 hrs. 41 min., on Saturday, 10th August, A. D. 1107.
And, on the dates put forward by him, I would make the following remarks:
The inscription of A. D. 1087. This records a grant of land and an oil-mill; and the latter item seems to connect the grant closely with the tailabhyanga. expect that in this record the fourteenth tithi, which began on the Saturday at about 42 gh. 40 p., 17 hrs. 4 min., and ended on the Sunday at 46 gh. 45 p., : 18 hrs. 42 min., is a genuine mistake for the thirteenth, which included all the daylight hours of the Saturday. The inscription of A. D. 1144. The resulting day for Vaddavara, with the ended tithi, is Friday, as stated by Prof. Kielhorn. But, as Friday is mentioned in the first part of this record by the usual name, Sukravåra, it seems hardly likely that Vadḍavara also can be really used here to mean Friday. Though the two parts of the record are dated in two successive years, they seem to have been written at one and the same time. With the tithi, the second, which seems, at first sight, to be given in the first part of the record, the resulting week-day there is Monday, instead of Friday. But there are indications that the 'two' was corrected into six.' And this would give the correct day, Friday. It seems possible that there was some similar carelessness, left uncorrected, in respect of the tithi in the second part of the record. The given tithi, indeed, Magha krishna 14, is the tithi of the Maha-Sivaratri, which is named in the record; and there ought to be no mistake in connection with at any rate the tithi of so very special a festival. But, plenty of cases can be turned up in which the rites have had to be celebrated on the day on which the thirteenth tithi ended. And the question
NOTES AND
[SEPTEMBER, 1893.
may be, whether, on the occasion in question, there were any circumstances that necessitated. the celebration of the rites during the fifteenth tithi, which ended on Saturday, with the result that the writer made confusion between the ended tithi of that day and the tithi of the
festival.
BASSEIN-BASSEEN.
Yule, Hobson-Jobson, s. v. teak, quotes Rennell, Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan or the Mogul Empire, 1793, p. 260, to the following effect:the teek forests, from whence the marine yard at Bombay is furnished with that excellent species of ship timber, lie along the western side of the
The inscription of A. D. 11 63. The tithi began on the Saturday, at about 3 gh. 15 p., 1 hr. 18 min., and ended on the Sunday, at 6 gh. 5 p.,
2 hrs. 26 min. As a current tithi, it was connected with almost the whole of the daytime of the Saturday. And my belief is that we have always to consider the week-day during which a tithi is current during an appreciable portion of the daytime, quite as much as the week-day on which it ends.
The inscription of A. D. 1187. The resulting week-day is undoubtedly Saturday, as stated by Prof. Kielhorn. The tithi began at about 39 gh. 10 p., 15 hrs. 40 min., on the Friday; and ended at 35 gh. 10 p.,. 14 hrs. 4 min., on the Saturday. And both the daytime condition and the ending condition are satisfied.
The inscription of A. D. 1234. Here, again, the resulting week-day is undoubtedly Saturday, as stated by Prof. Kielhorn. The tithi began at about 33 gh. 40 p., 13 hrs. 28 min., on the Friday; and ended at 28 gh. 35 p.,= 11 hrs. 26 min., on the Saturd ay. And, here also, the daytime condition is satisfied, as well as the ending condition.
The inscription of A. D. 1284. According to all but one of the inscriptions of Ramachandra in Sir Walter Elliot's MS. Collection, the Svabhanu samvatsara, A. D. 1283-84, ought to be the thirteenth year of his reign, not the twelfth; according to the one exception, it would be the twelfth year. My results are the same as Prof. Kielhorn's, for the three years given by him. And there must be more than one mistake in the details given in the record.
It seems to me that the evidence decided, preponderates in favour of Vaḍḍavara meaning Saturday. But, as I have already said, definite proof is still wanting.
J. F. FLEET.
24th May, 1893.
QUERIES.
Gaut Mountains. . . . on the north and northeast of Basseen.
This settles the pronounciation of Bassein when the word first began to be recognized, although the Bassein referred to by Rennell is I take it the town in the Bombay Presidency and not the town in Burma. See ante, p. 18 ff. R. C. TEMPLE.
