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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA POSTSCRIPT. BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E. Vishṇuvardhana II., the father and immediate predecessor of Maṅgiyuvarâja, according to Dr. Fleets’s calculations, commenced to reign some time in February-March A.D. 663, and the traditional length of his reign is nine years. A date of the month of Vaiśâkha of the second year of Maṅgiyuvarâja’s reign therefore would in the first instance be expected to fall in or near April A.D. 673 ; and I have no doubt that the proper equivalent of our date is Friday, the 6th May A. D. 673 (falling in Śaka-saṁvat 595 expired), when there was a total eclipse of the moon, from 13 h. 21 m. to 16 h. 45 m. after mean sunrise, and therefore visible in India. The question is, whether this day could have been described as the full-moon day of Vaiśâkha. According to the rules now in force, the 6th May A.D. 673 would have been the full-moon day of the month Jyêshṭha (which follows upon Vaiśâkha) ; by the same rules the Śaka year 595 expired would have contained as intercalated month Âshâḍha. By the rules of mean intercalation and the ordinary manner of naming the months, the intercalated month in Ś. 595 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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