South Indian Inscriptions

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Index
Introduction
Contents
List of Plates
Additions and Corrections
Images
Contents
Bhandarkar
T. Bloch
J. F. Fleet
Gopinatha Rao
T. A. Gopinatha Rao and G. Venkoba Rao
Hira Lal
E. Hultzsch
F. Kielhorn
H. Krishna Sastri
H. Luders
Narayanasvami Ayyar
R. Pischel
J. Ramayya
E. Senart
V. Venkayya
G. Venkoba Rao
J. PH. Vogel
Index
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
Volume 1	Volume 2
Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
Volume 9	Volume 10
Volume 11	Volume 12
Volume 13	Volume 14
Volume 15	Volume 16
Volume 17	Volume 18
Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
Volume 23	Volume 24
Volume 26	Volume 27
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	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
Epigraphica Indica	Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
Epigraphia Indica Volume 4	Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
Epigraphia Indica Volume 7	Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

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VOLUME VIII.

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No. 1.─ DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.

BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E. ; GÖTTINGEN.

(Continued from Vol. VII. page 177.)

Of the numerous dates of Chôḷa kings sent to me by Prof. Hultzsch and Mr. Venkayya, I again publish seventeen Among these, the most interesting─ and, I may add, those which have given me most trouble─ are perhaps the five dates Nos. 85-89 of Râjarâja [II.] Parakêsarivarman, which prove that this king, of whom no dates have yet been published here, commenced to reign between (approximately) the 27th March and the 23rd November A.D. 1146. The date No. 99 reduces the time, previously found for the commencement of the reign of Râjêndra-Chôḷa III., to the period from (approximately) the 21st March to the 20th April A.D. 1246. The date No. 94, of Kulôttuṅga-Chôḷa III., is of the 25th January A.D. 1217, while the dates of his successor Râjarâja III. show that this king commenced to reign already between (approximately) the 23rd June and the 13th August A.D. 1216 ; and similarly the dates Nos. 96 and 97, of Râjarâja III., are of the 7th February and the 22nd April A.D. 1248, while the years of his successor Râjêndra-Chôḷa III., as has just been stated, are counted from some time between (approximately) the 21st March and the 20th April A.D. 1246. The date No. 100 belongs to a king or chief Tribhuvanavîra-Chôḷa, who apparently commenced to reign in A.D. 1331-32.

A.─ VIKRAMA-CHOLA.

84.─ In the Śaranârâyaṇa-Perumâḷ temple at Tiruvadi.^[1]

1 Svasti śrî [||*] Pû-mâdu puṇara . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . kô=Pparakêśaripanma-
10 r=âna Tiribuvanachchakkaravatti[ga*]ḷ śrî-Vikkirama-Śôladêvar-
11 kku yâṇ[ḍu*] 7vadu Siṁ[ha]-nâyarru apara-pakshattu êkâ-
12 [di(da)] śiyun=Tiruvâdiraiyum perra [V]i[y]âla-kkilamai-nâḷ.

“ In the 7th year (of the reign) of king Parakêsarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Vikrama-Chôḷadêva,─ on a Thursday, which corresponded to (the day of)Ârdrâ and to the eleventh tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Siṁha.”

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^[1] No. 30 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1903.

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