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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
RANGANATHA INSCRIPTION OF SUNDARA-PANDYA. No. II.— Inscription on the west wall of the second prâkâra of the Jambukêśvara temple at Śrîraṅgam. ......Pôśaḷa-śrî-Vîra-Râmanâthadêvarku yâṇḍu [7vadu] Dhanu-nâyarru apara-pakshattu shashṭhiyum Budhan-kilamaiyum perra [Pûra]ttu nâḷ. ......“The day of Pûrva-Phalgunî,1 which corresponded to Wednesday, the sixth tithi of the second half of the month of Dhanus in the [7th] year (of the reign) of the Poysaḷa śrî-Vîra-Râmanâthadêva.” No. III.— Inscription on the south wall of the second prâkâra of the Raṅganâtha temple. ......Hoyisaḷa-śrî-Vîra-Râmanâthadêvarku yâṇḍu padinaiñjâvadu Mina-nâyarru pûrvva-pakshattu prathamaiyum Tiṅgaḷ-kilamaiyum perra Aśvati-nâḷ. ......“The day of Aśvinî, which corresponded to Monday, the first tithi of the first half of the month of Mîna in the fifteenth year (of the reign) of the Hoysaḷa śrî-Vîra-Râmanâthadêva.” No. IV.— Inscription in the south-west corner of the third prâkâra of the same temple. ......Pôśaḷa-śrî-Vîra-Râmanâthadêvarku yâṇḍu padinaiñjâvadu Mithuna-nâyarru apara-pakshattu êkâdaśiyum Nâyarru-kkilamaiyum perra Bharaṇi-nâḷ.
......“The day of Bharaṇî, which corresponded to Sunday, the eleventh tithi of the second half of the month of Mithuna in the fifteenth year (of the reign) of the Poysaḷa śrî-Vîra-Râmanâthadêva.” No. V.— Inscription on the south wall of the Poysaḷêśvara temple at Kaṇṇanûr. ......Padinêlâvadu Âḍi-mâdam irubattu-nâlân=tiyadiy=âna Prajâpati-saṁvarsarada2 Śrâvaṇa-śuddha-trayôdaśi Maṅgalavâram. ......“Tuesday, the thirteenth tithi of the bright half of Śrâvaṇa in the Prajâpati year, which corresponded to the twenty-fourth solar day of the month of Âḍi of the seventeenth (year of the reign).” ......The above five dates can be easily calculated by an expert, because we known, from the
inscription of Ponnambaladêvâ, that Râmanâtha was a son of Sômêśvara. Hence the only
possible Prajâpati year in date No. V. is Śaka-Saṁvat 1194. As this was also the 17th year of
Râmanâtha’s reign, the dates of Nos. III. and IV. will fall in Śaka-Saṁvat 1192 ; the date of
No. II. in Śaka-Saṁvat 1184 ; the date of No. I. in Śaka-Saṁvat 1179 ; and his accession to the
throne in Śaka-Saṁvat 1177.3 It further follows that the defeat and death of Sômêśvara and
the coronation of Narasṁiha III. at Dvârasamudra probably took place in the same Śaka year,
1177. The earliest known inscription of Narasiṁha III. is actually dated in this year.4
From an inscription, which is dated in the 29th year or the reign of Vîra-Sômêśvaradêva, at Tiruvâśi near Śrîraṅgam, it follows that the accession of Sômêśvara took place between
Śaka-Saṁvat 1146, the date of his predecessor Narasiṁha II., and Śaka-Saṁvat 1177 – 29 = ......1 The name of the nakshatra is obliterated and may be Pûśam (Pushya), instead of Pûrva-Phalgunî).
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