The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.76

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⁵ The grant was made on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon. But the month is not stated; so the precise date cannot be determined, as, in the Saumya saṁvatsara, there were two lunar eclipses, on the 12th April, A.D. 1009, and on the 6th October following (see Von Oppolzer's *Canon der Finsternisse*, p. 359).—The Saumya saṁvatsara might, indeed, be coupled with Śaka-Saṁvat 930 expired,—in which case there would be no mistake in the record,—by the southern Vikrama luni-solar system, if that system existed (see *Ind. Ant.* Vol. XVIII. p. 222). And then, bearing in mind that the date must be later than that of the Muṇavaḷḷi inscription, which, coupling Kilaka with Ś.-S. 930 expired according to the usual southern luni-solar system, gives a date in July-August, A.D. 1008, for Irivabedaṅga-Satyâśraya,—the eclipse might be identified with that of the 17th October, A.D. 1008. But the existence of the southern Vikrama variety of the cycle remains to be proved. And it seems, on the whole, probable that there really is a mistake in respect of the Śaka year that is given in the record.