The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.187

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² By the Sirûr inscription, noticed in full further on, the new-moon day of the amânta Jyêshtha, Saka-Samvat 789 current, fell in the fifty-second year of the reign of Amôghavarsha I. Consequently, the new-moon day of the amânta Jyêshtha, S.-S. 738 current, fell in his first year; and his regnal years run from some date, still to be exactly determined, from Âshâdha sukla 1 of S.-S. 737 current, in A. D. 814; up to the amânta Jyêshtha krishna 30, the new-moon day, of S.-S. 738 current, in A. D. 815. — As regards the latest date for him, A. D. 877-78, the text distinctly gives S.-S. 799, in words, as well as in figures. And I myself have a record from Rôn, in the Dhârwâr District, which gives for him a date in the Jaya samvatsara, S.-S. 796 (expired), in A. D. 874, within three years of the above. — On the grounds that "it is very improbable that a prince should reign for such a long period," Dr. Bhandârkar has suggested (Early History of the Dekkan, 1884, Supplement, p. ii.) that "there must be a mistake somewhere." But, as regards the Sirûr record at any rate, the suggestion is quite gratuitous: the text is perfectly preserved and legible; and there is no mistake, except that, in my published translation (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 219), I carelessly gave the Saka year as 787, instead of 788 as it is in the text.