South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

(L. 5).─ sȗrya-parvaṇi.

Sunday, 28th October A.D. 1296 ; a solar eclipse, visible in India.

381.─Ś. 1222.─ From impressions supplied by Dr. Fleet. Vêlâpur inscription^[1] of the reign of the Dêvagiri-Yâdava Prauḍha-pratâpa-chakravartin Râmachandra:─

(L. 1).─ Śak [u] 1222 Śârvarî-saṁvatsarê Mârgisaru-vadi (9?] Sômê.

Supposing the figure for the tithi to be really 9, the date corresponds to Monday, 5th December A.D.1300.

382.─Ś. 1227.─ From impressions supplied by Dr. Fleet. Vêlâpur inscription of reign of the Dêvagiri-Yâdava Prauḍha-pratâpa-chakravartin Râmachandra:─

(L. 1).─ Śâku 1227 | Viśvâvasu-saṁvachchha(tsa)rê | Mârga-su(śu)dha(ddha) 5 Sômê.

Monday, 22nd November A.D. 1305 ; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIII. p. 119, No. 38.

H.─The Hoysaḷas.^[2]

383.─Ś. 961 (?).─Mysore Inscr. No. 174, p. 329. Date in a Sindigere Kanarese inscription.^[3] The Poysaḷa (Hoysaḷa) Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Vinayâditya Tribhuvanamalla, ‘ lord of Dvârâvatî,’ and his wife Keḷeyabbarisi (Keḷeyaladêvî), residing at their capital of Sosavȗru(?),^[4] gave a girl in marriage to, and bestowed the lordship of Sindagere on, the Daṇḍanâyaka Mariyâne:─

‘ The Śaka year 961,^[5] the year Sarvajit, the month Phâlguna, the 3rd day of the moon’s increase, Monday.’

For Ś. 961 expired, which, however, was Pramâthin, the date would correspond to Monday, 18th February A.D.1040.

(For other dates in the same inscription see below, Nos. 385 and 401).

384.─Ś. 987 (?).─Mysore Inscr. No. 166, p.307. Date (in the Nirgund inscription of the time (?) of the Hoysaḷa Sômêśvara, below, No. 438) of the time (?) of the W. Gaṅga Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Gaṅgarasa and (?) the Hoysaḷa Vishṇuvardhana :^[6]─

‘ In the Śaka year 987, the year Nala, the month Pushya, the 5th day of the moon’s increase, Thursday, the time of the sun’s entering the northern signs.’

Nala (Anala) would be Ś. 998 expired, but for that year the date is incorrect ; it is incorrect also for Ś. 987 current and expired. 385.─Ś. 1025.─Mysore Inscr. No. 174, p. 330. Another date in the Sindigere Kanarese inscription (above, No. 383). The Hoysaḷa Ballâḷa I., reigning at his capital of Bêlâpura (Vêlâpura), married Padmaladêvî, Châvalidêvî and Boppadêvî, the three daughters of the Daṇḍanâyaka Mariyâne of the second generation, on whom he again conferred the lordship of Sinddgeṛe ;─

‘ The Śaka year 1025, the year Svabhânu, the month Kârttika, the 10th of the moon’s increase, Thursday.’^[7]

The date is irregular.
(For other dates in the same inscription see Nos. 383 and 401).

386.─Ś. 1037 (for 1035).─Inscr. at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa, No. 46, p. 22. Sanskrit and Kanarese inscription recording the date of the death of Bȗchaṇa (Bȗchirâja), the son of the

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^[1] The inscription contains a sculpture of an ass and a woman.
^[2] Compare also above, Nos. 197 and 234, and below, No. 713.
^[3] Compare Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 451, note 4.
^[4] The translation has ‘ Sosulya.’
^[5] In the Aḷêsandra inscription in Ep. Carn. Vol. IV. p. 203, No. 32, where the same date is given, the year is ‘ 967.’ Sarvajit would be Ś. 969 ; for that year the date is incorrect, and it is incorrect also for Ś. 967 current and expired.
^[6] Compare Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 492, note 3.
^[7]The same date is given in the Aḷêsandra inscription, Ep. Carn. Vol. IV. p. 203, No. 32.