South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.s3.4

c8.s3.4

The date of accession of Rājādhirāja II according to the late Dr. Kielhorn is March A.D. 1163 on the basis of his examination of astronomical details in five of his records. According to the same authority the date of accession of Rājarāja II is A.D. 1146. (*Epi. Indica*, ix. 219). The Ekāmbranātha temple inscription (No. 7 of 1893) of Rājādhirāja II states that his eighth year was fifteen years from the nineteenth year of Rājarāja II (*S. Indica Ins.* iii. 207). This will give the latter a reign of twenty-six years at least, and the accession of his successor must have taken place in his twenty-sixth year, i.e. in the year A.D. 1172 (initial year 1146 + regnal year 26). As a matter of fact there is a record of his twenty-seventh year, and this notwithstanding, the date of accession of Rājādhirāja must now be accepted as the year A.D. 1171-2. (*Ep. Rep.* 1904, Sec. 21).