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AUGUST, 1913.)
ON SOME NEW DATES OF PANDYA KINGS
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Date.-13th year of Jat. Sund, Pandya ; Mina ; su. 6; Saturday; "Rəhiņi." On Sat. 6th March 1289, Mina, su. 6 and " Rohini" ended at:51 and 54 respectively.
1901 (191). From the south wall of the mandapa in front of the Apatsahâyêśvara temple at Tennêri (Chingleput District). Gift of land.
Date.-14th year of Jat. Sund. Påndya ; month of Adi; Monday; " Hasta.” On Monday 9th July 1285,"Hasta" ended at .48 [Regnal year should be 15th, not 14th).
1909 (308). From the south wall of the outer prakära of the Kachchhapêsvara temple at Tirukkachûr (Chinglepat District). Gift of 3 cows for a lamp by a mercbant of MadhurântakaChaturvedimangalam, residing in the street Bavanamuludapperunderuvu, of that'village.
Date.-17th year of Jat. Sund. Pândya; Simha, bukla .... " y", Monday; "Utt. Åsb," On Monday 6 Sep. 1288, Simha sukla navami (9th tithi) ended at .22 of day and "Utt. Ash." was current for the greater part of the day, ending at 21 next day. [Regnal year was strictly the 18th, not 17th].
N. B.-This Jatavarman Sundara Paudya, whose reign is attested by six regular and several fairly regular dates, noticed above, comes between Kielhorn's Jat. Sund. Pandya I and his Jat. Sund. Pandya II, who is really the third of that name in the present list of Pândyas of the 13th century. I would, bowever, not assign any numbers till we know more about the Sundara Pandyas in the latter half of the 12th and the first half of the 13th century; but simply distinguish each Pandya, whether Sundara or Vira, by the initial year of his reign. It would be interesting to know when Jat. Sundara Pâņdya, who came to the throne on or aboat 29 Dec. 1270, ceased to reign. A. D. 1288 is the latest date furnished by Madras Inscriptions, while in one of the Padukottai inscriptions I have found a 30th year for him, i. e., A. D. 1300. If Jat, Sundara Pandya whose reign began in 1270 ceased to reign in or about A. D. 1800, he cannot be the parricide who murdered Mâr. Kulasekhara I, in or about A. D. 1310. Nor can the parricide be the Jag. Sundara Pandya who next comes under our notice and whose reign, beginning in A. D. 1276, ended in all probability, according to the inscriptions, as well as the Muhammadan historians, about A. D. 1293.
Jatavarman Sundara Pandya II. (Reign began between 13th September 1275 and 15th May 1276 on or about 25th June 1276).
1908 (414). From the Vilinâthagvâmin temple at Tiruvilimilalai (Tanjöre District ) Gift of land for the recital of tirumurai.
Date.-9th year of Jațâvarman Sundara Pandya; Tula; ba. 7; Sunday; "Pushya." On Sunday, 21 Oct, A.D. 1285 Tuļa. ta. 7 and “Pushya" commenced respectively at 24 and 14 of the day. They ended next day at 20 and 12 respectively.
1902 (581 A). From the west wall of the Saundaryanayaki shrine in the Kaļiśvara temple at Kalaiyarkovil (Madura District). Gift of land.
Date.--11th year of Sundara Pandya II. Dhanus ; 2nd tiyadi, Wodnesday; "Punarvası" = Wed. 4th Dec. 1286, on which day Dhanns ba. 3 and "Panarvagu" ended respectively at 82 and 93 respectively.
[N. B. “Second tiyadi," ordinarily meaning the 2nd day of a solar month, is an unusual expression for dvitiyd or " 2nd lunar tithi", although tiyadi is etymologically tbe same as lithi].
1902 (575). From the south wall of the Kaliśvara temple at Kalaiyarkovil (Madura District). Gift of land to the temple of Kanappêr by Aghôraśiva Mudaliâr alias Vaidya-chakravartin. Mentions also a certain Pushpavanaśiva.
Date.-12th year of Jat, Tribh. Sundara Pandya; Simba 29; ba. 3; Wednesday, “Rêvati." On Wednesday, 27th August 1287 [which was 30 Simha, not 29 Simba], ba, 3 and "Rêvati ended at 73 and 37 respectively.
There is another date, very similarly worded, but referrible to a Sundara Pandya whose reign must have commenced in A. D. 1303- [See No. 580 of 1902 below].
1907 (590). From the north wall of the Tiruchuttumâliga of Saumyanathasyamin temple at Nandalûr (Cuddapah). Damaged.
