South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Under the preceding date it has been stated that the nakshatra was Aśvinî on the 16th day of the month of Siṁha of the third year of the king’s reign ; Aśvinî therefore cannot have been the nakshatra on the 27th day of the same month. Nor would the weekday be correct ; for the 27th day of Siṁha of the third year would be Saturday, the 23rd August A.D. 1180 (when the nakshatra was Uttara-Phalgunî).─ I have not found any year of the reign of Kulôttuṅga-Chôḷa III. for which the date would be correct.

68.- In the Vâmanapurîśvara temple at Tirumâṇikuli.^[1]

1 Svasti srî [||*] Tiribuvanachchakravattigaḷ śrî-Vîrarâjêndira-Śôladêvarku yâṇḍu êlâvadu Siṁha-[nâyar]ru irubattârân=diyadi âna Budan-kilamaiyum pûrshva(rvva)-pakshattu-chchatu[r*]daśiyum=âna[2] Śadaiya-
2 ttu nâḷ.

“ In the seventh year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Virarâjêndra-Chôḷadêva,^[3]─ on the day of Śatabhishaj, which was the fourteenth tithi of the first fortnight and a Wednesday, which was the twenty-sixth solar day of the month of Siṁha.”

The 26th day of the month of Siṁha of the 7th year of Kulôttuṅga-Chôḷa III. corresponds to Wednesday, the 22nd August A.D. 1184.^[4] On this day the 14th tithi of the bright half (of Bhâdrapada) ended 13 h. 19 m., and the nakshatra was Śatabhishaj, by the equal space system and according to Garga from 1 h. 19 m., and by the Brahma-siddhânta from 1 h. 58 m., after mean sunrise.

If this were a date of Râjêndra-Chôḷa III., it would be quite incorrect.

69.-In the Darbhâraṇyêśvara temple at Tirunaḷḷâr.^[5]

1 Svasti śrî [||*] Tiribuvanachchakkaravattigaḷ Madurai koṇḍu Pâṇḍiyan muḍi- ttalaiyum koṇḍ-aruḷiya śî-Kulôttuṅga-Śôladêvarkku [y]âṇḍu 17vadu Kumba- [n]âyarru pûrva-pattiśattu^[6] ti[tî]yaiyum^[7] Tiṅgaṭ-kilamaiyum perra Uttiraṭṭâdi- nâḷ.

“ In the 17th year (of the reign) of the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulôttuṅga-Chôḷadêva, who, having taken Madurai, was pleased to take also the crowed head of the Pâṇḍya.─ on the day of Uttara-Bhadrapadâ, which corresponded to a Monday and to the second tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Kumbha.”

The date corresponds to Monday, the 13th February A.D. 1195, which was the 21st day of the month of Kumbha, and on which the second tithi of the bright half (of Phâlguna) commenced 1 h. 55 m. after mean sunrise, while the nakshatra was Uttara-Bhadrapadâ, by the Brahma-siddhânta and according to Garga the whole day, and by the equal space system from  3 h. 17 m. after mean sunrise.

70.─ In the Kṛipâpurîśvara temple at Tiruvêṇṇainallûr.^[8]

1 Svasti śrî [||*] Pû maruviya diśaimugattôn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tiribuvanachchakkaravarttigaḷ Maduraiyum Pâṇḍyan muḍi-ttalaiyuṅ=goṇḍ-aruḷina

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^[1] No. 164 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1902.
^[2] The da of ºdaśiº is entered below the śi.
^[3] The name Vîrarâjêndradêva (II.) is applied to Kuḷôttuṅga III. in two inscriptions of the 5th year at
Chidambaram (Nos. 121 and 122 of 1887-88).
^[4] The Siṁha-saṁkrânti took place 16 h. 48 m. after mean sunrise of the 27th July A.D. 1184.
^[5] No. 395 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1902.
^[6] Read –pakshattu.
^[7] Read dvitîyaiyum.
^[8] No. 313 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1902.