Indian Antiquary Vol 42

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 173

June, 1918)
ON SOME NEW DATES OF PANDYA KINGS
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limits of the period to which each inscription relates. Without sach hints, pare chronology would be very often at son in such investigations. The annual reports of the Madras Epigraphint give only the Saks or the cyclic years of inscriptions, but not the details of month and day, where these are available. I have suggested to the Epigraphist that these details might be given in fatured in the Annual Report in all cases in which they are available, and also, where the only possible clue to the discovery of the year is the mention of a concurrent set of tithi, udra and nakshatra with or without solar month, that a brief indication of the period to which the characters and other epigraphical evidence might soem to point should be furnished in the Annual Report. Such an indication as “circa 13th cent." or " 12th or 13th cent." or later than 14th cent." is in the latter class of cases indispensable for chronological investigation. All details of tithi, nakshatra and vdra, invaluable as they are for epigraphic research, are at present omitted from the epigraphist's annual reports, in order possibly to economize space, but no scientific record, however brief, can be complete without such details as may serve eventually to fix the date. The inscriptions containing such details are unfortunately not many. Moreover, if the tabular arrangement at present adopted in the appendices to the Madras Epigrapbist's annual reports were replaced by the narrativo form which I have adopted in Part IV of this article, there would not only be no waste of space, but considerable economy would result, and the Epigraphist would be able to include in the appendices everything he wished to quote from the contents of a given inscription, instead of having to divide his notes between the "remarks" column of an appendix and the text of his report. If the procedure I suggest were adopted, all the inscriptions found in a partioular temple or other building would still stand together, as they do now, but they could be provided with a conspicuous heading, describing the temple or structure by its name, village, taluk and district. The tabular form seems to have been adopted more than 20 years ago when there were much fewer inscriptions and much less information to be recorded under each than is at present the case. It is now rather a hindrance than a help to the full treatment of an important or interesting inscription.
II. List of Pandya rulers of the 19th century. • An asterisk distinguishes additions made by the present writer to the list of Pandya kings published by Prof. Kielborn at pp. 226-228 of Vol. IX of Epigraphia Indica. Name of ruler.
Limits of commencement of reign. # Jatavarman Vira Påndya 1 ...
18 Aug. 1189—15 Ap. 1190 Jatavarman Kulasekhara I ... ...
30 Mar.-29 Nov. 1190
29 Mar.4 Sep. 1216 Mâravarman Sandara Pandya I
*25 June-]9 July 1216 • Jatavarman Kulasekhara II
16 June-30 Sep. 1237
15 June 1288—18 Jan. 1289 Máravarman Sundara Pandya II
*3 July-1 Dec. 1238 Jatavarman Sundara Pandya I
30th-28 Ap. 1251 Måravarman (*) Vira Pandya
11 Nov. 1252—13 July 1258 • Jatavarman Vira Pandya II...
15 May-19 June 1254 Mâravarman Srivallabha ...
4410 Sep. 1257
2-27 June 1268 Märavarman Kulasekhara I ...
-12-27 June 1268 Jatavarman Sandara Pandya (II) ... ... 2 Nov. 1270-5 Jan. 1271
13 Sep. 1275-15 May 1276 * Jatavarman Sandara Pândys II ...
" 24 June 1276 I am glad to find that in the annual report for 1912-13 these details are for the first time given in full-L.D.8.
• I have assigned numbers to the Pandyas of the 18th cont. morely for convenience of reference in this artiole. I do not recommend the employment of such numbers generally when donline with the Pandyas: for it is certain that there were earlier Pkpd yw bearing the same names, though we do not now know their OXAT dates. It would be better to refer to each Pkpdya by the your of his accession.
. Called Jat. Sundara Pandya II in Professor Kielhorn's list.