The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.110

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¹ An inscription at Guḍikaṭṭi in the Sampgaon tâluka, Belgaum District, dated in the Nandana saṁvatsara, coupled with Śaka-Saṁvat 973, by mistake for 974 (expired). The Śaka year is expressed partly in numerical words, by nandu, 'the nine treasures,' saptan, 'seven,' and guṇa 'the three qualities.' So also in the first part of this record, purporting to give the Plavaṁga saṁvatsara, coupled with Ś.-S. 928, by mistake for 929 (expired), for Jayasiṁha II. (see page 436 above, note 1), the date is expressed by nidhi, 'the nine treasures,' dvi, 'two,' and gaja, 'the eight elephants of the points of the compass.' If this record is accepted as genuine, it furnishes the earliest authentic instance of the use of numerical words to express an epigraphic date in Western India. But the earliest absolutely reliable instance, known to me, is one of A.D. 1071, which is noted further on under Sômêśvara II.