South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c14.s1.68

c14.s1.68

But the month given Iravilādān could be none other than the Tamil version of Rabi-ul-Sāni, or Dhāni as the s and the DH interchanged. That the Hijira date was in use here and that these do refer to the Muhammadan times we have evidence of in other records of which, as was pointed out above, one of them refers to the ninth year of Mahārājā Mahamadi Surattān, at Panaiyūr in the Tirumeyyam Taluk in the Pudukoṭṭa State. Another record at Rāngiyam (Rājaśingamangalam) in the same Taluk of the State refers itself to the year 732 of Ādi Surattān (Sultan). All these taken together leave no doubt that the era referred to is the Hijira, and the time to which the records refer is the period of the Muhammadan occupation of the south.