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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
SPURIOUS SUDI PLATES. and the Vṛiddhi yôga. By the southern luni-solar system only can Prabhava be connected with Śaka-Saṁvat 169 expired ; and, by that system, it coincided with the given year, which is virtually Śaka-Saṁvat 170 current. The new-moon tithi of the pûrṇimânta Phâlguna began on Friday , 11th February, A.D. 248, at about 11 ghaṭîs, 15 palas,= 4 hrs. 30 min., after mean sunrise (for Bombay). But, on that day, there was neither the Rêvatî nakshatra, no. 27, nor the Vṛiddhi yôga, No. 11 ; at sunrise the nakshatra was Śatatârakâ, No. 24, and the yâga was either Siddha, No. 21, or Sâdhya, No. 22. The new-moon tithi of the amânta Phâlguna began on Saturday, 11th March, at about 48 gh. 50 p., =19 hrs. 32 min.1 The use of the southern luni-solar system of the cycle in this record is itself evidence of comparatively late date ; for, the mean-sign system was the one for Southern India, up to at any rate A.D. 804.2 .......The Harihar grant purports to be dated in the Sâdhâraṇa saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 272, on the new-moon tithi of Phâlguna, on Sunday. Here, again, the saṁvatsara can be connected with the given year only by the southern luni-solar system, according to which Sâdhâraṇa coincided with Śaka-Saṁvat 272, as an expired year, i.e. with Śaka-Saṁvat 273 current. But the new-moon tithi of the pûrṇimânta Phâguna began on Monday, 11th February, A.D. 351, at about 51 gh. 30 p.,=20 hrs. 44 min. ; and the new-moon tithi of the amânta Phâlguna ended on Thursday, 14th March, at about 6 gh. 20 p.,= 2 hrs. 32 min. Here, again, the use of the southern luni-solar system of the cycle is itself evidence of a comparatively late date. And so also is the fact that the Śaka year is expressed by numerical words ;3 for ,the earliest genuine epigraphic instance of this, in India, is the record which gives the date of the coronation of Amma II. I A.D. 945, and the earliest absolutely reliable instance in Western India, known to me, is an inscription of the time of the Western Châlukya king Somêśvara II. at Aṇṇîgere in the Dhârwâr district, dated. in A.D. 1071.4
.......The Merkara grant purports to be dated in the year 388, which is taken to be, and can only be, Śaka-Saṁvat 388, on the fifth tithi of the bright fortnight of Mâgha, on Monday. But, in Śaka-Saṁvat 388 current, the given tithi ended on Friday, 7th January, A.D. 466, at about 21 gh. 50 p.,= 8 hrs. 44 min. And, with Śaka-Saṁvat 388 expired, the given tithi, in Śaka-Saṁvat 389 current, began on Tuesday, 27th December, A.D. 466, at about 7 gh. 45 p., = 3 hrs. 6 min. .......And the Hosûr grant purports to be dated in Śaka-Saṁvat 684 expired, in the month Vaiśâkha, on Friday, on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon. In this year, however, the full-moon tithi ended on Tuesday, 13th April, A.D. 762 ; and on this day there was no lunar eclipse.5 ....... It is necessary now to say a few words about the Tamil chronicle, the Koṅgudêśa-Râjâkkaḷ, which has already been incidentally mentioned. It purports to give an account of twenty-eight
kings of the Koṅga or Koṅgu country, from four generations before A.D. 82-83 to A.D. 894-95,
In many respects it agrees with the grants : so much so that it and they plainly have some
very close connection ; though, whether the grants were fabricated from the chronicle, or whether
the grants having been first concocted, the chronicle, which mentions charters of A.D. 82-83,
178-79, 288-89, 746-47, and 878-89, was put together, with additions from them, or whether all
......1 For this date, see also Ind. Ant. Vol. XVII. p. 241 ; some of the details given there are,
however, superfluous,
as no year can possibly be concerned except Śaka-Saṁvat 170 current (169 expired). In such cases as
the present
ones, it is only necessary to state the beginning or the end of a tithi, whichever fulls on or nearest to the
given
week-day.
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