The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.300

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⁵ In examining his dated records, on a previous occasion I arrived at the conclusions (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 188) that the Aihole inscription is dated in Saka-Samvat 632 current, on the 23rd September, A. D. 709, when the autumnal equinox occurred in the full-moon tithi; that this appeared to fix the month Sravana of S.-S. 620 current, in A.D. 697, as the first month of his first year; and that this result could be reconciled with the others only by assuming that in that record the "thirteenth" year is a mistake for the "fourteenth." But it seems plain now that, like paurnamasa in the Nerur grant of Chandraditya (see page 365 above, and note 3), the word purnamasa in the Aihole inscription, denotes, not 'the full-moon tithi,' but simply 'the full-moon fortnight.' Accordingly, the Aihole record is to be placed one year earlier, in S.-S. 631 current, on the 23rd September, A. D. 708, when the autumnal equinox occurred in the bright fortnight of Asvayuja, during the fifth tithi (see page 372 below, note 5): This makes the Sravana of S.-S. 619 current, in A. D. 696, the first month of his first year. And this satisfies all the conditions of his other dated records.