South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

(L. 8.) When (we) advanced against Śêndamaṅgalam and were going to encamp (there), Kôpperuñjiṅga became afraid and submitted to the king that (he) would release the Chôḷa emperor.

(L. 9.) As he (viz. the king) agreed and despatched a messenger to us, (we) liberated the Chôḷa emperor, went (with him), and let (him) enter (his) kingdom.

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No. 24.- DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
BY F. KIELHORN, PH.D., D.LITT., LL.D., C.I.E. ; GÖTTINGEN.
(Continued from page 10.)

Dr. Hultzsch again has sent me a large number of date of Chôḷa kings, of which I now publish twenty-three, with the results of my calculations. Of these, the dates Nos. 61-74 show that the times previously found for the commencements of the reigns of the five kings to whom they belong─ Râjarâja I., Râjêndra-Chôḷa I., Kulôttuṅga-Chôḷa I., Vikrama-Chôḷa, and Kulôttuṅga-Chôḷa III.─ are correct. The dates of Râjarâja III., Nos. 75-78, reduce the time during which this king must have commenced to reign, to the period from (approximately) the 23rd June to the 13th August A.D. 1216. And the dates Nos. 79-83, belonging to Râjêndra-Chôḷa III., of whom no dates had yet been examined, prove that this king commenced to reign between (approximately) the 21st March and the 8th May A.D. 1246. The remaining dates sent to me are very difficult to deal with ;^[1] their publication will probably have to be deferred to the time when more dates of the kings to whom they belong have been discovered.

A.- RAJARAJA I.
61.- In the Mûlêsvara temple at Bâhûr.^[2]

1 Svasti srî [||*] Kânda[ḷ]ûr-Chch[â]l[ai] ka[lam=aru]tta kô I[râ]jarâja- k[ê]sar[ipa]nmarku yâ[ṇ]-
2 ḍu lla(â)vadu . . . . . . . . . . . . ivv-âṭṭai Midhu(thu)na-nâyarru
3 apara-pakshattu Nâyarru-kkilamai perra Kâtti[g]ai-nânrru^[3] pagal.

“ In the 11th year (of the reign) of king Râjarâjakêsarivarman who destroyed the ships (at)
Kândaḷûr-Śâlai,─ in daytime on the day of Kṛittikâ, which corresponded to a Sunday of the
second fortnight of the month of Mithuna in this year.”

The date corresponds to Sunday, the 14th June A.D. 996, which was the 22nd day of the
month of Mithuna, and on which the 11th tithi of the dark half (of Jyaishṭha) ended 12 h. 58m.,
while the nakshatra was Kṛittikâ, by the Brahma-siddhânta for 13h. 47m., according to Ganga
for 15 h. 6 m., and by the equal space system from 2 h. 38 m., after mean sunrise.

B.- RAJENDRA-CHOLA I.
62.- In the Karavandiśvara temple at Uḍaiyârkôyil.^[4]

1 Sva[st]i śrî [||*] Tiru manni vaḷara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17 . . . . . kô=Ppararê(kê)śaripan[ma] . . [v=U]ḍaiyâr śrî-Râjêndra-Śôladêva[rku yâṇ]ḍu 31â[vadu] . . . . .

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^[1] They apparently belong to three kings of whom no dates have yet been published in this list.
^[2] No. 178 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1902.
^[3] Read –nânru.
^{[4 ]} No. 403 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1902.