Indian Epigraphy c11.t8.28

c11.t8.28

As indicated above, the occasions regarded as specially auspicious for purposes of making grants of land, etc., recorded in a large number of copper-plate inscriptions, were the full-moon, the new-moon, the solar or lunar eclipse, the vernal or autumnal equinox (viṣuva), the saṅkrānti, the vyatīpāta (when the new-moon falls on a Sunday and the moon is in certain nakṣatras, or when the full-moon falls on a Monday), ayana (the beginning of the sun’s southerly or northerly course, i.e. the sun’s appearance on or crossing of the equinoctial or solstitial point), etc. Certain grants are known to have been made on particular holy tithis like the Śivacaturdaśī (14th day of the dark half of Māgha), Damanaka-caturdaśī (the 14th day of the bright half of Caitra), etc.