South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

H.─ Râjarâja III, Râjakêsarivarman.^[1]
(Between the 17th March and the 13th August A.D. 1216.)^[2]

No. 45 (Vol. VI. p. 281).─ Year opposite to 16 : Saturday, the 25th September A.D. 1232.
No. 46 (Vol. VI. p. 282).─ Year 17 : Tuesday, the 18th January A.D. 1233.
No. 47 (Vol. VI. p. 282).─ Year 18 : Tuesday, the 23rd August A.D. 1233.
No. 48 (Vol. VI. p. 282).─ Year 18 : Wednesday, the 7th December A.D. 1233.
No. 49 (Vol. VI. p. 283).─ Year 18 : Monday, the 2nd January A.D. 1234.
No. 50 (Vol. VI. p. 283).─ Year 19 : probably Sunday, the 13th August A.D. 1234.^[3]
No. 51 (Vol. VI. p. 284).─ Year 22 : Tuesday, the 16th March A.D. 1238.^[4]
No. 52 (Vol. VI. p. 284).─ Year opposite to 22 : Monday, the 28th February A.D. 1239.
No. 53 (Vol. VI. p. 284).─ Year opposite to 22 : Wednesday, the 2nd March A.D. 1239.
No. 54 (Vol. VI. p. 285).─ Year opposite to 22 : Friday, the 4th March A.D. 1239.^[4]

To the above I may add that, between A.D. 1054 and 1069, the date of the fifth year (of the reign) of Vîrarâjêndra Râjakêsarivarman, which occurs in South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. No. 30, is correct only for Monday, the 10th September A.D. 1067,^[5] and that therefore, if the date does fall within the sixteen years stated and has been correctly recorded, Vîrarâjêndra Râjakêsarivarman must have commenced to reign between (approximately) the 11th September A.D. 1062 and the 10th September A.D. 1063.

POSTSCRIPT.
Date of the Chellûr plates of Kulôttuṅga-Chôḍa II.

In the text of these plates, published by Dr. Fleet with a photo-lithograph in Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 56 ff., the date, in lines 49-51, is given thus :-

Sâk-âbdânâṁ pramâṇê rasa-viśikha-viyach-chaṁdra-saṁkhyâṁ prayâtê . . . s-Ârdra- rkshê pûrvva-ma(pa)kshê vishuvati su-tithâ(thau)-

i.e., “when the measure of the Śaka years had advanced to the number of the flavours (6), the arrows (5), the sky (0), and the moon (1),”─i.e. in Śaka-Saṁvat 1056 ─ . . . . “at the equinox combined with the Ârdrâ nakshatra, in the bright half, on an excellent tithi.”

In Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 191, Dr. Fleet has shown that this date would be incorrect for Śaka-Saṁvat 1056 current and expired, as well as for Śaka-Saṁvat 1057 expired ; and he was communicated a suggestion of Mr. Sh. B. Dikshit’s, in according with which the date would correspond to the 24th March A.D. 1132, in Śaka-Saṁvat 1055 current. But really the date would be incorrect even for Śaka-Saṁvat 1055 current, because in this year also the equinox was not combined with the Ârdrâ nakshatra.

In the twenty Śaka years from 1047 to 1066 the data is correct only for Śaka-Saṁvat 1065 expired. In this year the Mêsha-vishuva-saṁkrânti took place 16 h. 37 m., after mean sunrise

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^[1] This surname occurs only in the date No. 45.
^[2] The latest date of this Râjarâja, known to me, is from the month of Karkaṭaka of his 28th year which was current after the Śaka year 1165 ; see South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. I. No. 64. This date would shew that Râjarâja’s reign could not have commenced after the last day of the month of Karkaṭaka in A.D. 1216, i.e. not later than the 27th July A.D. 1216.
^[3] In the original date either the nakshatra Uttiraṭṭâdi (Uttara-Bhadrapadâ) has been wrongly quoted instead of Uttiram (Uttara-Phalhunî), or the first fortnight instead of the second.
^{[4 ]}In the original date the 4th tithi has been wrongly quoted instead of the 14th.
^[5] The day was the 15th day of the month of Kanyâ, and on it the 14th tithi of the dark half (of the month Bhâdrapada) ended 9 h. 21 m., after mean sunrise ; the nakshatra was Uttara-Phalgunî, by the Brahma-siddhânta for 31 h. 40 m. after mean sunrise, according to Garga the whole day, and by the equal space system from 0 h. 89 m. after mean sunrise.