South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Perhaps Sunday, 2nd October A.D. 1390 ; but on this day Jupiter’s true place was in Vṛiśchika (and his mean place in Dhanuḥ), not in Siṁha.

943.─Kollam 301.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 253. Translation^[1] of a Chôḷapuram (Râjêndra-Chôḷêśvara temple) Tamil inscription of Vira-Kêraḷavarman of Vêṇâḍu :^[2]─

‘ In the year opposite the year 301, since the appearance of Kollam, with the sun in the sign of Leo’ (Siṁha).

[Kollam 301= Ś. 1047-48.]

944.─Kollam 319.─ Ind. Ant. Vol XXIV. p. 255. Translation of a Tiruvallam Old Malayâḷam inscription of Vira-Kêraḷavarman of Vêṇâḍu :─

‘ In the Kollam year 319, with Jupiter in the sign Scorpio’ (Vṛiśchika), ‘ and the sun in Capricornus’ (Makara).^[3]

[Kollam 319 = Ś. 1065-66.]

945.─Kollam 335.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XXVI. p, 141. Puravachêri Tamil inscription recording private donations :─

‘ In the year opposite the year 335 after the appearance of Kollam.’

[Kollam 335 = Ś. 1081-82.]

946.─Kollam 336.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 257. Translation of a Puravachêri Tamil Inscription^[4] of Vira-Ravivarman of Vêṇâḍu :─

‘ In the year opposite the year 336, after the appearance of Kollam, with the sun six days Old^[5] in the sign of Taurus’ (Vṛishabha), ‘Saturday, Makayiram’ (Mṛigaśîrsha) ‘ star.’

[Ś. 1083] : Saturday, 29th April A.D. 1161 ; see ibid. Vol. XXV. p. 54, No. 1. 947.─Kollam 342.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 277. Translation of a Puravachêri Tamil inscription [of Vira-Ravivarman of Vêṇâḍu ?] :─

‘ In the year 342 after the appearance of Kollam, with the sun 7 days old in Leo’ (Siṁha). [Kollam 342 = Ś. 1088-89.]

948.─Kollam 348 (for 347 ?).─Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 278. Translation of a Tiruvaṭṭâr Old Malayâḷam inscription of Vîra-Udaiyamârtâṇḍavarman of Vêṇâḍu :─

‘ In the Kollam year 348, with Jupiter in Cancer’ (Karkaṭaka), ‘ and the sun . . days old in Pisces’ (Mîna), ‘ Thursday, Anusham’ (Anurâdhâ) ‘ star.’

[Ś. 1094] : Thursday, 16th March A.D. 1172 ; see ibid. Vol. XXV. p. 54, No. 4, and p. 174. 949.─Kollam 368.─Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 283. Translation of Viraṇam (near Ârriṅgal) fragments of one or two Tamil inscriptions [of a Vîra-Kêraḷavarman ?], one of which is dated─ ‘ in the Kollam year 368, which Jupiter in Virgo’ (Kanyâ), ‘ and the sun two days old in Taurus’ (Vṛishabha).^[6]

[Kollam 368 = Ś. 1114-15.]

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^[1] For this and the following inscriptions compare also the late P. S. Pillai’s Some Early Sovereigns of Travancore, Madras, 1894.
^[2] This is the Tamil name of the Travancore country.
^[3] In the Kollam year 319 = A.D. 1143-44 Jupiter was not in Vṛiśchika.
^[4] For another Tamil inscription from the same place and of apparently the same date, see Ind Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 258.
^[5] I.e ‘on the 6th solar day’.
^[6] In the Kollam year 368 = A.D. 1192-93 Jupiter was not in Kanyȃ.