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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
ADDITIONAL INSCRIPTIONS Kalachuri era could not have commenced in the month of Āśvina as was supposed by Prof. Kielhorn.1 The grant purports to have been made on the occasion of the solar eclipse which occurred in the month of Kārttika, evidently in the Kalachuri year 885 recorded at the end of the grant; but neither in that year (corresponding to 1133-34 A.C.) nor in either of the two preceding years K. 883 and K. 884 (corresponding to 1131-32 and 1132-33 A.C. respectively), was there any solar eclipse in the month of Kārttika, amānta or pūrṇimānta. There was, however, a solar eclipse in the month of pūrṇimānta Śrāvaṇa in K. 885. It occurred on the 23rd July 1134 A.C. It would, therefore, seem that Kārttikē māsi in v.15 is a mistake for Śrāvaṇē māsi. This proposed reading would also suit the metre of v. 15 very well. Besides, this would reduce the interval between the date of the grant and the issue of the plates to about two months, which appears quite plausible.² As for the localities mentioned in the present plates, the village Gōri, from which the donee's grandfather had emigrated, may be Gōrā, 18 miles almost due south of Pāra- gaon. Kōsala is, of course, Dakshiṇa-kōsala, roughly corresponding to modern Chhattisgarh. Vōḍalā may be Bōludā, 27 miles south by east of Pāragaon in the Baloda Bazar tahsil of the Raipur District.
1 If the Kalachuri year commenced on Āśvina śu. di. 1, the date of the present plates would have to
be regarded as irregular; for the month of Āśvina would, in that case, fall in 1132 A.C. if the year
885 was current, and in 1133 A.C. if it was expired. The tithi Āśvina śu. di. 1, on which the present
plates were issued, fell on Monday (the 12th September) in 1132 A.C., and on Friday (the 1 st September)
in 1133 A. C. In neither case did it fall on Wednesday as required. CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
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