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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Works on astrology dealing with the auspicious moments for particular functions give a number of details regarding the mūhūrta of coronation. Tuesday[1] and Wednesday[2] are to be avoided ; Sunday, Monday and Friday are all right if they are sabala ;[3] Uttarāyaṇa is to be preferred but Chaitra, Āshāḍha and an intercalary month are to be excluded,[4] as also Śrāvaṇa and Bhādrapada.[5] The rikta-tithis 4, 9, 14 and 30 and the night are similarly to be avoided.[6] It is generally believed that the first day of a month is not favourable for any auspicious undertaking. The period when the sum is in the Vṛiśchika, Tulā or Kanyā rāśi is recommended for coronation.[7] We find from Pillai’s Indian Ephemeris that the sun was in the Kanyā rāśi on the 29th August 1261 A.D. and the intercalary Bhādrapada was over two days earlier. Most of these general rules are found observed, in the selection of the date recorded. The only question is about Dakshiṇāyaṇa and Bhādrapada, during which the coronation should not take place according to the astrologers. The explanation of this question is to be found in the following remark of the author of the Muhūrtaprakāśa : mṛite rājñi na kālasya niyamō=tra vidhīyatē. In the case of a sudden death of the reigning king, the kingdom should not remain without a lord for a long time.[8] It may be supposed that such an emergency arose and hence the coronation took place during the Dakshiṇāyaṇa and Bhādrapada, though normally they are to be avoided.
The charter records the grant of the village of Kālugaṁva in favour of fifty-two Brāhmaṇas on the occasion of the king’s coronation. The name of the gift village was changed to Paṭṭavardhanapura apparently with reference to the occasion of the grant. The fifty-two donees of the grant belonged to twenty-two different gōtras. Thirty of them claim to be Bahvṛicha or Ṛgvēdin, twenty-one Taittirīya or Yajurvēdin and only one Chhandōga or Sāmavēdin. The details are furnished in the following table.
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[1] Muhūrtachintāmaṇi, Nirṇayasāgara Press, 1907, p. 324.
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