The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.181

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(2) A copper-plate grant from Haidarâbâd in the Dekkan,² which records that Pulikêśin II., himself, at the city of Vâtâpi, granted a village named Mâkarappi to a Brâhman, on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun on the new-moon day of the month Bhâdrapada in the third year of his râjyâbhishêka or installation in the sovereignty, Śaka-Samvat 534 expired; the corresponding English date is the 2nd August, A.D. 612, on which day there was a total eclipse of the sun, though it was not visible in India.³ It is this record that fixes the period of his coronation. And it is also of importance in shewing that Pulikêśin had established himself at Bâdâmi before the date recorded in it; and consequently, that the earlier expeditions and successes described in the Aihole inscription as preliminary to the consolidation of his power were at any rate anterior to A. D. 612.