Indian Antiquary Vol 25

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 15

JANUARY, 1896.)
NARSINH MEHTANUN MAMERUN.
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385, which would bring us to Mithunam or Idavam 384. But as this supposition does not agree with Japiter's place, there can scarcely be any doubt that the document, instead of being made half a year before the first payment, was drawn up a whole year earlier or in one of the first months of 384, whilst Japiter was yet in Cancer. It is not quite easy to say which day is to be taken for Jupiter's leaving Cancer; for one cannot be sure whether the trae or the mean position of Japiter is to be taken into account. This seems to be decided by No. 13. When calculating the true place of Japiter by the Tables in Warren's Kala Sankalita, we find Jupiter, 14 degrees in Aries. As the inscription says "Jupiter entering Aries," fourteen degrees are rather too much advanced for such an expression. But when we simply calculate the beginning of Jupiter's years by the Tables of Kielhorn, we find that the yoar Pingala, which corresponds to Aries, had begun on the day 2178462 of the Julian period, just 24 days before our date, so that the expression “Japiter entering into Aries" would be quite exact. Using, therefore Kielhorn's Tables also for No. 10, we find for the beginning of Srimukha or Jupiter's entering Leo the day 2162576 or the 27th Tulå 334, so that the document would be brought to Kanyå or Tulå 384, some days before the first Vrischigam, so that the first half-yearly payment was only due after & whole year.
"As to the dates Nos. 2, 7 and 8, they must be erroneons; for Jupiter, instead of being in Scorpio, Cancer and Virgo, 'is found respectively in Aquarius, Sagittarius and Aries. Mr. Sandaram Pillai, in the note to page 29, also remarks that the position assigned to Jupiter in these inscriptions does not agree with the other inscriptions. There must be some error in the date. To sum up, we find for our dates: - No. 1 = Augast 1126 or August 1127 (August 1125, if one begins the year with
Chingam). No. 2 erroneous. No. 3 = 29th April 1161. No. 4 = No. 3. No. 5 = August 4, 1167 or August 3, 1168 (August 4, 1166, if one begins the year
with Chingam). No. 6 = 1173 A. D., February 22, or March 1, or March 8, or March 15. No. 7 erroneous. No. 8 erroneous. No. 9 = April 17, 1196. No. 10 between October 23, 1208 and January 14, 1209. No. 11 = March 12, 1215. No. 12 = May 10, 1236. No. 13 = May 15, 1252. No. 14 = February 15, 1316 or February 14, 1317.
NARSINH MEHTANUN MAMERUN.
A POEM BY PREMANAND. TRANSLATED FROM THE GUJARATI WITH NOTES BY MRS. J. K. KABRAJI.
(Continued from p. 106.)
Canto VII. 245 "What ruin the old woman has brought on me!" (Kuivarbåt laments). "My grandmother-in-law stands in the place of an enemy to me; she has destroyed all
the gladness of my heart :