Jinamanjari 1998 04 No 17

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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characteristic mark. It refers itself to the reign of the Cālukya king Bhūlökamalla, who bore the title sarvajña cakravarti and who was also stated to have been ruling from Kalyāņa. The record then states that Tailapadēva, the younger brother of the king was ruling over Kandūrnāļu.
The inscription is dated Saka 1047, Krõdhana, Phālhuna śu. 15 (Pourņamāśi) Brishaspativāra Sõmagrahaņa, corresponding to C.E. 1125-1126, February 19, Thursday. The date that is given in the present record seems to be spurious in light of following two epigraphs:
1. According to the Duggavatti epigraph of Tribhuvanamalladēva Vikramādiya VI, which is dated Saka 1049, Parābhava Pausha, šu. 1, pādva, Adivāra and corresponds to 1126 C.E., December, 16 Thursday (not Sunday as stated), it is obvious that Vikramāditya VI was still on the throne upto 1126 C.E. December 16, if not further.
2. The Patancheru grant of king Bhūlökamalla Sõmeśvara III states officially that the king's coronation took place on Phālguna su. 7 Sunday, in the Chālukya Vikrama year 51, Parābhava. The C, E. equivalent of this date would be 1127, February 20.
From these records, it is clear that Vikramādiya VI was still on the throne upto C.E. 1126 December 16, and Bhūlākamalla's coronation took place in 1.127 C.E., February 20. Since, the present record informs that Bhūlākamalla has already been ruling from Kalyāna, it must have been issued only after Patencheru grant, which states specifically that Bhūlākamalla's coronation took place on February 20 in 1127 C.E. Besides, the present record is also incorrect in its details, as there was no lunar eclipse in the KrödhanaSamvatsara as stated. In the reign of Bhūlõkamalla, there occurred only two lunar eclipses in Phālguņa. One is on Phālguņa 15, in S.1053 Virõdhin which corresponds to 1132 C.E., March 3, Thursday and another on Phālguna su. 15, Paridhāvi in Ś 1054 which is equivalent to Tuesday, 21 February 1132 C.E. Perhaps, the present record might have been issued in $.1053, Virõdhin ( March1132 C.E.), as the details of the present record tally (to some extent) with the above particulars except with the Samvatsara ( i.e. Virodhin) on which date the lunar eclipse took place. The engraver of the present record seems to have
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