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4.- A date with a Shadasitimukha-sankranti. valour (pratápa) Devaraj, alas, met with death.
Dr. Fleet informs me that the Chaucadâmpur How, O Yama, can fate be averted P7 inscription of the Dêvagiri-Yådava - Mahadera of Here it so happens that Saka-samvat 1368 Saka-sativat 1185 (current) and the year Dunda- expired is the only year Kshaya of the southern bhi (Pali, Skr, and Old-Kan. Inscr. No. 111) con- luni-solar cycle, in which the month Vaisakha tains two other dates, one of which, in lines 92 and was intercalary; and for that year the date is 93, is -
correct. For in Saka-samvat 1368 expired the Rudhirodgari-san vatsa rada Jeshtha-ba- 14th tithi of the dark half of the second Vaisakha
lula 5 (but possibly l) Âdi-våra Shada- ended 14 h. 57 m. after mean sunrise of Tuesday, sitimukha-sankranti tatkaladalli; i.e., the 24th May A. D. 1446, which therefore is
Sundsy, the 5th (but possibly lst) of the the day on which Prat&pa-Dôvaraya died. dark half of Jyaishtha of the year 6.- A date of the year 2493 after VardhaRudhirôdgarin, at the time of a
mana's Nirvana. Shadssitimukha-Bamkranti.
In an inscription, published in Inscr. at SraThe Shadasitimukha-sankrantis are the sam- vana Belgola, p. 111, No. 141, Krishnaraja Vodeyar krântis of the sun into the signs of Mithuna,
of Maisar confirme some grants on a date which Kanya, Dhanuh. and Mina;' and of these, a
is given thus :sainkranti that takes place in the dark half of
Svasti sriVarddhaman-akhye Jiné muk. Jyaishtha can only be the Mithuna-sainkrinti.
tim gatê satil And the year Radhirôdgârin of the date must be
vahni-randhr-&bdhi-notrais=cha vatsarêshu Saka-san vat 1185 expired. In that year the
mitêshu vai II Mithuna-samkranti took place, by the Sarya
Vikramanka-samdevrind -gaja-s & maja. siddhanta, 3 h. 33 m. after mean sunrise of
hastiblih Sunday, the 27th May A. D. 1283, during the
satishu ganuniyåsu ga nita-jűair=bbudhais3rd tithi of the dark balf of the amanta Jyaishtha,
tada 11
Balivahana-varsheshu which ended on the same day, 12 h. 15 m. after
nôtra-bana-nag. mean sunrise. This result shews that the nume
endubhih ral figure for the tithi of the date ought to be 3,
pramiteshu Vikrity-abdê Sravané mási not 5 (nor 1).
mangalê Il
Krishạn-pakshê cha pailchamyari tithau 5. - Date of the death of Pratapa Devaraya
Chandrabya visare ; of Vijayanagara.
i. e., on Monday, the 5th tithi of the dark In the genealogical table of the first Vijaya- balf of Sravana of the year Vikriti, which was na gara dynasty, given by Dr. Hultzsch in Ep. the year 2493 after Vardhamana's Nirvana, Ind. Vol. III. p. 36, Pratapa-Devarays is put the Vikrama year 1889, and the Saka year down as a younger brother of Devaraya 11. The 1752. the numbers of the years being denoted day on which he died is recorded in Inscr. at
by numerical words, which, in the case of the Sravana Belyola, p. 95, No. 125, in the following Vikrama year, are irregularly put in the same verse in the Prithvi metre:
order (1, 8, 8, 8) as the figures are written. Kshaykhvaya-kuvatsarê dvitayayukta- Tbo date, for Saka-samvat 1752 espired, which
Vaisakhake Mahitanaya-varske yuta- was the year Vikriti, regularly corresponds to balaksha-paksh-êtare
Monday, the 9th August A.D. 1830, when the Pratapanidhi-Devarat pralayam=&pa hant= 5th tithi of the dark half ended 3 l. 16 m. after
Asamas=chaturdasa-dinê kathan Pitri- mean sunrise. Sakn-enn vat 1752 expirel is patê niväryå gatih il
equivalent to the Chaitridi Vikraina-saivat 1888 In the evil year Kshaya, in the wretched current ; and this, again, has been commuted into second Vaisakha, on a miserable Tuesday, in the year 2493 after Vardhamana's Nirvana simply the fortnight which was the reverse of bright, on
by the addition of 605. See ante, Vol XII, p. 21. the fourteenth day, the uneqnalled store of Göttingen.
F. KIELHORN.
See ante, Vol. XIX. p. 330.
p. 17, No. 11) are dated in the month of Margasirha . So far as I know, the latest available dato for of Saka-sazhvat 1370 (current) and the year Prabaya, Devaraya II. is the date of the Tanjavur inscription, falling in A. D. 1447. published by Dr. Hultzsch in South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. II. T or similar date. of Vikrama-saravat 1100, Bee p. 339, of Saka-sarb vat 1338 expired and the year Kshaya,
ante, Vol. XIX. p. 181, No. 134. which corresponds to Wednesday, the 29th June A. D. 1419. And the Seringa patam plates of his son and succes. The omission of the word Saka from this phrase ie sor Mallikarjun Immati-Devaraya (Ep. Carn. Part I. l quite unusual.
