South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

56 m., and by the Brahma-siddhânta for 1 h. 58 m., after mean sunrise. The only difficulty is, that by our Tables the 8th tithi of the [dark] half (of Kârttika) had ended 0 h. 26 m. before mean sunrise of the Thursday, and that therefore we should have expected the writer to quote the 9th tithi, not the 8th.

B.─ MARAVARMAN SUNDARA-PANDYA I.

46.─ In the Sundarêśvara temple at Madura.^[1]

120 . . . . . . . . śrî-kô Mâ-^[2]
121 rapanmar-âna ^[3] Trabhuvana-
122 chchakkaravattigaḷ Śôṇâ-
123 ḍu koṇḍu Muḍigo[ṇ]-
124 ḍaśôlapurattu vîrar=ava-
125 ^[4] bhishêgamum vijaiya[r=a-
126 ^[4] va]bhishêgamum pa[ṇ]ṇi-
127 [y-a]ruḷiya śrî-Sundara-Pâṇḍi-
128 yadê[varku] yâṇḍu 1-
129 5vadu Dhanu-nâyarru a-
130 para-pakshattu trayôda-
131 śiyum Śevvây-kkila-
132 maiyum perra [Vi]śâ-
333 gattu [n]â[ḷ].

“ In the 15th year (of the reign) of the glorious king Mâravarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pâṇḍyadêva, who took the Chôḷa country and was pleased to perform the anointment of heroes and the anointment of victors at Muḍigoṇḍaśôlapuram,─ on the day of Viśakhâ, which corresponded to a Tuesday and to the thirteenth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Dhanus.”

I have previously^[5] found that Mâravarman Sundara-Pâṇḍya I. commenced to reign between (approximately) the 29th March and the 4th September A.D. 1216. With that commencement of his reign this date of the 15th year regularly corresponds to Tuesday, the 3rd December A.D. 1230, which was the 8th day of the month of Dhanus, and on which the 13th tithi of the dark half (of Mârgaśira) commenced 4 h. 53 m., while the nakshatra was Viśâkhâ, by the equal space system and according to Garga for 10 h. 30 m., and by the Brahma-siddhânta for 5 h. 55 m., after mean sunrise.

C.─ MARAVARMAN KULASEKHARA I.

47.─ In the Tyâgarâjasvâmin temple at Tiruvârûr.^[6]

1 Svast[i] śr[î] [||*] [Kô Mâ]rapan[mar Tirubu]vanachchakkaravattigaḷ śrî- Kulaśêgaradê[va]rkku yâṇḍu 40vadu Mîna-nâyarru apa[ra]-pakshattu daśamiyum Tiṅgaḷ-kkila[m]aiyum perra Tiruvôṇattu nâḷ
2 . . . . . . . . . i-nnâḷâvadu Śakâdhi(tî)tam 1229.

“ In the 40th year (of the reign) of king Mâravarman (alias) the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Kulaśêkharadêva,─ on the day of Śravaṇa, which corresponded to a Monday and to the tenth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Mîna . . . . . . . . . . this day (i.e. year) corresponds to Śaka 1229 expired.”
_____________________________________________________________

^[1] No. 61 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1905.
^[2] The â of Mâ is engraved at the beginning of the next line.
^[3] Read Tribhuº.
^[4] Read =abhishêgaº.
^[5] See above, Vol. VI. p. 314.
^[6] No. 551 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1904.