The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.288

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⁴ As regards the period when Sōmēśvara IV. came to the front, — an inscription at the temple of Puradappa, or of Vīrabhadra, at Aṇṇigere in the Dhārwār District (Carn.-Dēsa Inscrs. Vol. II. p. 37; verified from an ink-impression, from which I find that the transcript is wrong, in calling the saṃvatsara the third year of the reign), and the third part of an inscription at Hūli in the Belgaum District (id. Vol. I. p. 444; verified from an ink-impression), both call the Krōdhin saṃvatsara ‘Saka-Saṃvat 1107 current) his second year. And this indicates the ‘Sōbhakrit saṃvatsara, = A. D. 1183-84, as his first year.’ The Aṇṇigere inscription is further dated at the time of an eclipse of the sun on the new-moon day of a month which is not named; and the Hūli inscription, at the time of the winter solstice on the full-moon day of Pausha (December-January). — On the other hand; in two inscriptions on beams in the madhyaraṅga of the temple of Māṇikēśvara at Lakkuṇḍi in the Dhārwār District (Carn.-Dēsa Insers. Vol. II. pp. 27, 34; both verified from ink-impressions), the Krōdhin saṃvatsara is cited as his third year (the further details, in both these records, are Pausha śukla 5, the winter solstice, coupled in one case with the syllable ḍa, which seems to stand for Ādityavāra, ‘Sunday,’ and in the other with the full word Sōmavāra, ‘Monday’). In agreement with this, — omitting dates in the Carn.-Dēsa Inscrs. which I have not been able to verify, — a copper-plate grant in the Alienation Office of the Commissioner, Central Division, dated on Bhādrapada full-moon (I quote from the original), and another inscription at Lakkuṇḍi, on a slab in the ceiling of a small shrine of Gaṇapati, dated on Pausha śukla 2 and 8 (not in the Carn.-Dēsa Inscrs.; I quote from an ink-impression), cite the Viśvāvasu saṃvatsara (Ś.-S. 1108 current) as his fourth year. In further agreement, an inscription at the temple of Baṇasaṃkarī at Aṇṇigere, dated on Māgha śukla 1 (Carn.-Dēsa Inscrs. Vol. II. p. 42; verified from an ink-impression; except that the portion containing the month, &c., has now been broken away), cites the Parābhava saṃvatsara as his fifth year; and a continuation of this record cites the Plavaṅga saṃvatsara (Ś. S. 1110 current) as his sixth year (here, again, the details, — Vaiśākha śukla 3, Monday, as given in the Carn.-Dēsa Inscrs. — are not now extant). And, according to all these records, the Subhakrit saṃvatsara, Ś.-S. 1105 current, = A. D. 1182-83, was counted as his first year. — The results deduced from these two sets of dates cannot be reconciled, except by supposing that Sōmēśvara IV. was in power during so small a part of the Subhakrit saṃvatsara