The Indian Analyst
 

South Indian Inscriptions

 

 

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Index

Introduction

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Additions and Corrections

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Dr. Bhandarkar

J.F. Fleet

Prof. E. Hultzsch

Prof. F. Kielhorn

Prof. H. Luders

J. Ramayya

E. Senart

J. PH. Vogel

Index-By V. Venkayya

Appendix

List of Plates

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Tiruvarur

Darasuram

Konerirajapuram

Tanjavur

Annual Reports 1935-1944

Annual Reports 1945- 1947

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1

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Epigraphica Indica

Epigraphia Indica Volume 3

Epigraphia
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 27

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Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2

Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2

Vākāṭakas Volume 5

Early Gupta Inscriptions

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Pudukkottai

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

2 . . . kôv = Irâjakêśarivatmar=âna uḍaiyâr śrî-[R]âjêndra-Śôladêvarkku yâṇḍu 4âvadu . . .
3 . . . ivv-âṭṭai Mṛi(vṛi)śchika-nâyarru pûrvva-pakshattu [1]shashṭiyut= Tiruvôṇamum perra Vi[y]âla-kkilamai-nâ[n]ru.

1 Svast“In the 4th year (of the reign) of king Râjakêsarivarman alias the lord, the glorious Râjêndra-Chôḷadêva,─ on a Thursday which corresponded to (the day of) Śravaṇa and to the sixth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Vṛiśchika in this year.”

A date of the fourth year of the king’s reign will be expected to fall in A.D. 1073 or 1074, and this date actually corresponds to Thursday, the 7th November A.D. 1073. This was the 12th or 13th day of the month of Vṛiśchika, and on it the 6th tithi of the bright half (of the month Mârgaśira) commenced 1 h. 38 m. after mean sunrise, while the nakshatra was Śravaṇa, by the equal space system and according to Garga for 23 h. 38 m. after mean sunrise, and by the Brahma-siddhânta the whole day.

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C.- VIKRAMA-CHOLA.

For reasons suggested partly by the new dates of this king, I must recapitulate here the data furnished by the dates already treated of,[2] and the results derived from them.

No. 10 (above, Vol. IV. p. 73).─ “In the fifth year . . . on the three-hundred-and- fortieth day, which was (the day of the nakshatra) Hasta, a Sunday, and the seventh tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Mithuna.” Taking this date to have been correctly recorded, I found the best equivalent for it between A.D. 1110 and 1125 to be Sunday, the 22nd June A.D. 1113 ; and counting backwards from this day, I obtained the 18th July A.D. 1108 as the day of the commencement of the king’s reign.

No. 21 (ibid. p. 263).─ “In the 4th year . . . on the day of Śatabhishaj, which corresponded to a Monday and to the eight tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Ṛishabha.” Guided by the result obtained under No. 10, I found this date to correspond to Monday, the 20th May A.D. 1112, when, to omit other particulars, the nakshatra, by the equal space system only, was Śatabhishaj for 0 h. 39 m. after mean sunrise.

No. 22 (ibid. p. 264).─ “In the 5th year . . . on the day of Ârdrâ, which corresponded to a Monday and to the eleventh tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Siṁha.” Guided again by the result obtained under No. 10, I found that this date would correspond to Monday, the 19th August A.D. 1112 ; but there was the difficulty that on this day the nakshatra was Punarvasu, not Ârdrâ.

No. 41 (above, Vol. p. 279).─ “In the . . . sixteenth year . . . in the month of Vaiśâkha, in the second fortnight, at the time known as Monday combined with an Uttarâ (nakshatra).” Again guided by the result obtained under No. 10, I found that Monday, the 5th May A.D. 1124, would be an unobjectionable equivalent of this date.

No. 42 (ibid. p. 280).─”In the 9th year . . . in the Plava year which was the Śaka year 1049, on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon in the month of Jyaishṭha.” This date for Śaka-Saṁvat 1049 expired (which was Plavaṅga, not Plava) was found to correspond to the 27th May A.D. 1127, but the result obtained under No 10 led me to assume that the 9th year of the reign had been quoted erroneously instead of the 19th regnal year.

From this it will be seen that the results obtained under Nos. 21, 22 and 41, as well as the correction suggested with regard to the regnal year of No. 42, mainly depend on the correctness of the data furnished by the text of No. 10, which it did not occur to me to suspect. Setting aside the date No. 10, it may be asked, however, how the three dates Nos. 21, 22 and 41

[1] Read shashṭhiyun=.
[2] I omit here the date No 48, which be reconsidered below.

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