South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Karkaṭaka, and on which the 5th tithi of the dark half (of Śrâvaṇa) ended 9 h. 4 m., while the nakshatra was Rêvatî for 18 h. 24 m., after mean sunrise.

For Jaṭâvarman Sundara-Pâṇḍya I. the date would be incorrect.

53.─ In the Dêvapurîśvara temple at Têvûr.^[1]

1 Sva[s]t[i] śr[î] [||*] Kôr=[Ch]chaḍaipanma[r]=âna [Tiribuva]nachchakkaravatt[i]gaḷ
2 śrî-Śundira-Pâṇḍiyadêvarkku yâṇḍu 1[1]vadu Mṛichchiya-^[2]nâ-
3 [ya]rru apara-pakshattu shashṭi(shṭhi)yum [Buda]n-kilamaiyum perra Pû-
4 śattu nâḷ.

“ In the 1[1]th year (of the reign) of king Jaṭâvarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pâṇḍyadêva,─ on the day of Pushya, which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the sixth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Vṛiśchika.”

For Jaṭâvarman Sundara-Pâṇḍya II. this date apparently corresponds to Wednesday, the 29th October A.D. 1287, which was the first day of the month of Vṛiśchika,^[3] and on which the 6th tithi of the dark half (of Kârttika) ended 7 h. 52 m., while the nakshatra was Pushya, by the equal space system and according to Garga for 15 h. 46 m., and by the Brahma-siddhânta for 13 h. 47 m., after mean sunrise. But by the previously^[4] found result this day would fall in the 12th, not the 11th, year of Jaṭâvarma Sundara-Pâṇḍya II.^[5]

54.─ In the Kâḷîśvara temple at Kâḷaiyârkôvil.^[6]

1 . . . . . [śrî]-kô=Chchaḍaipa[n]mar=âna stri(tri)[bhuva]na- chchakka[rava]ttigaḷ [śrî]-Śundara-Pâṇḍi-
2 yadêvarku iyâṇḍu 12vadu Siṁña(ṁha)-nâyarru [3]1 têdi^[7] [apa]ra-[pa]ksha[t]tu tṛi[tî]yai[yu]m Buda-
3 n-kila[m]aiyu[m] perra Irêba(va)di-nâḷ.

“ In the 12th year (of the reign) of the glorious king Jaṭâvarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Sundara-Pâṇḍyadêva,─ on the day of Rêvatî, which corresponded to a Wednesday, to the third tithi of the second fortnight (and) to the [3]1st solar day of the month of Siṁha.”

For Jaṭâvarman Sundara-Pâṇḍya II. the date apparently corresponds to Wednesday, the 27th August A.D. 1287, when the 3rd tithi of the dark half (of Bhâdrapada) ended 16 h. 22 m., while the nakshatra was Rêvatî for 8 h. 32 m., after mean sunrise. But this day was the 30th, not the 31st, day of the month of Siṁha, the Siṁha-saṁkrânti having taken place
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^[1] No. 518 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1904.
^[2] Read Vṛiśchika-.
^[3] The Vṛiśchika-saṁkrânti took place 17 h. 43 m. after mean sunrise of Tuesday, the 28th October A.D. 1287.
^[4] See above, Vol. VI. p. 314.
^[5] Mr. Venkayya, who has checked the readings of the original dates after they were in print, has informed me that the second figure of the regnal year cannot be read 2, but may be 9. And I find that for the 19th regnal year of Jaṭâvarman Sundara-Pâṇḍya II. the above date would regularly correspond to Wednesday, the 10th November A.D. 1294, which was the 14th day of the month of Vṛiśchika, and on which the 6th tithi of the dark half (of Kârttika) ended 17 h. 17 m., while the nakshatra was Pushya, by the equal space system and according to Garga for 1 h. 19 m., after mean sunrise. Nevertheless, I am not fully convinced that the date really belongs to the 19th year of Jaṭâvarman Sundara-Pâṇḍya II. For the 19th year if Jaṭâvarman Sundara-Pâṇḍya I. it would be incorrect.
^[6] No. 575 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for 1902.
^[7] The word têdi is denoted by a symbol.