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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(OCTOBER, 1894.
Text.
Anyonyalankara. Anyonyalankara hai
anyonyahi upakara Sasi té niši niki lagai
risi-hí té sasi-sára || 132 1 Translation,
The Reciprocal. [Sahitya-darpana, 724.]
The Reciprocal (anyónya) is when (two things) matually benefit each other, as for example: - The moon lends lustre to the night, and the night gives glory to the moon.'
(To be continued.)
FOUR CHOLA DATES.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D. of the numerous inscriptions of Chola kinge, which are scattered all over the Tamil country, none, as far as we know at present, contains a date in the Saka or any other era ; and even the approximate time of the reigns of Parântaka I. and his successors would have remained unsettled unless the names of some of these kings did occur in dated inscriptions of their Ganga and Chalużya contemporaries. These contemporaneous references, which I have fully discussed on previous occasions, are briefly the following :
I. - According to the Udayêndiram plates of the Ganga-Baņa king Rajasimha alias Hastimalla, 2 - this feudatory of the Chola king Madirai-konda K 6-Parakesarivarman alias Parantaka I. was the grandson of Přithuyabas, who was a contemporary of Amôghavarsha, i. e. the Rashtrakůța king Sarva-Amoghavarsha I. who ruled from A. D. 814-15 to 876-78.3
II. - According to the Atakûr inscription, the Chôļa king Rajaditya, eldest son of Parantaka I., was slain by the Ganga king Batuge, who was a feudatory of the Rashtrakûța king Krishna III., before A. D. 949-50.4
III.- Kandava, the daughter of the Chola king Rajaraja, great-grandson of Parantaka I., was married to the Eastern Châlukya king Vimaladitya (A. D. 1015 to 1022).
IV. - Rajondra-Chola I., son of Rajaraja, fought with the Western Chalukya king Jayasimha III. (about A D. 1018 to about 1042); and his daughter Ammangadevi was married to the Eastern Chalukya king Rajaraja I. (A. D, 1022 to 1063).
V. - The Chola king Rajendradova fought with the Western Châlukya king Åhavamalla II. (about A. D. 1042 to about 1068); and his daughter MadhurAntaki was married to the Châlukya-Chôa king Rajendra-Chola II. alias Kulottunga-Chola I. who succeeded to the Chola throne, and the year of whose accession (A, D. 1063) as well as that of his two immediate successors, Vikrama-Chola (A. D. 1112) and Kulottunga-Chola II. (A.D. 1127), is known from copper-plate inscriptions. The dates Nos. 2, 3 and 4, which will be published below with Prof. Kielhorn's and Mr. Dikshit's calculations, prove the approximate correctness of the
ante, Vel. XVIII. p. 240 ; South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. pp. 82, 51 f. and 112, and Vol. II. p. 232; Annual Report for 1891-92, p. 2 ff.
In Mr. Foulkes's edition of this inscription, the meaning of verse 21 is obscured by two misreadings. The original plates, which are in my hands, read :-TEA 549 9844 ar TATTIMENA 4: [1] भाकामतो युधि परान्तकतो नरेन्द्रान् गंगावपा(वा)यसलिलाशयराजासह[*] || • Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 54, Table.
Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 168 f. • South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 32, and ante, Vol. XX. p. 283.
