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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 26.─ DATES OF CHOLA KINGS. BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E. ; GÖTTINGEN. (Continued from page 8.)
From the Government Epigraphist’s collection of inscriptions Mr. Venkayya again has
sent me for examination a large number of dates, of which I here publish 36 dates of Chôḷa
kings. The most important of them is No. 101, which has only quite lately been discovered by
Mr. Venkayya. It is of the reign of Parântaka I. and, together with my date No. 55, proves
that this king commenced to reign between (approximately) the 15th January and the 25th July
A.D. 907. Of the other dates, one (No. 102) is of the reign of Râjêndra-Chôḷa I., and one
(No. 106) of the reign of Râjarâja II.; 3 dates (Nos. 103-105) belong to Vikrama-Chôḷa,
8 (Nos. 107-114) to Kulôttuṅga-Chôḷa III. (Vîrarâjêndra-Chôḷadêva, Tribhûvanavîradêva), 16
(Nos. 115-130) to Râjarâja III., and 6 (Nos. 131-136) to Râjêndra-Chôḷa III. These dates in
every way confirm the correctness of the general results previously obtained ; at the same time,
they enable us to give within narrower limits the times during which some of the kings to whom
they belong must have commenced to reign. Thus it may be affirmed now that Râjêndra-Chôḷa I. commenced to reign between (approximately) the 27th March[1] and the 7th July
A.D. 1012 ; Râjarâja II. between (approximately) the 27th March and the 11th July[2] A.D.
1146 ; Kulôttuṅga-Chôḷa III. between (approximately) the 6th [3] and 8th July A.D. 1178,
and Râjarâja III. between (approximately) the 27th June and the 10th July A.D. 1216.[4]
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