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INSCRIPTIONS, 



Name of the Year. 



Year of 

 the Sali- 



V«i ( id lid 



Saka. 



- 



Year of 

 the Kali- 

 yuga. 



- 



Year A.D. 



52. Kalayukti or -ta {Kalayukti) 



1841 



5020 



1918-1919 



53. Siddhartha or -thin-" [Siddhartln) 



1842 



CA01 



ouzi 



lnin i aoa 



iy iy- lyju 





1843 



SAOO 



1 no A 1 AO 1 



iy.zu-iyzi 



55. Durmati (Burmati) 



1844 



5023 



1921-1922 



56. Dundubhi (Dundubhi) 



1845 



5024 



1922-1923 



57. Rudhirodgarin 33 (Rudhirodgari). 



1846 



5025 



1923-1924 



58. Raktaksa or -ksi or -ksin 33 (72a^- 



1847 



5026 



1924-1925 



59. Krodhana (Krodhana) 



1848 



5027 



1925-1926 



60. Ksaya (Aksaya) 



1849 



5028 



1926-1927 



These names seem to be of considerable antiquity. They 

 are all mentioned in the 8th chapter of the Brhatsamhitd, 

 and being well known are probably not enumerated in the 

 Sunjashldhdnta. The names in current use in Southern India 

 have most likely been derived from the following verses 

 ascribed in Kamalakara's Nirnayasindhu to the ancient 

 astronomer Gargya. 



Prabhavo Vibhavas Suklah Pramodo'tha Prajapatih 

 Angiras Srtmukho Bhavo Yuva Dhatesvarastatha 

 Bahudhanyah Pramathi ca Vikramo'tha Vrsastatha 

 Citrabhanus Subhanus ca Taranah Parthivo Vyayah 

 5. Sarvajit Sarvadharl ca Virodhl Vikrtih Kharah 

 Nandano Vijayas caiva Jayo Manmathadurmukhau 

 Hemalambo Vilambo'tha Vikari Sarvari Plavah 

 Subhakrcchobhanah Krodhl Visvavasuparabhavau . 

 Plavangah Kllakas Saumyas Sadharano Virodhakrt 

 10. Parldhavl Pramadl ca Anando Raksaso'nalah 



Piagalah Kala}*uktas ca Siddharthi RaudradurmatI 

 Dundubhi Rudhirodgari Raktaksih Krodhanah Ksayah. 34 



33 Norn. sing. Pramathi. All the nouns in in take the nom. sing, in i. 



34 With respect to the names compare also Agnipurdna, Chapter 139, the 

 Jyotisaratnamdld and other similar works. Br. Burnett, in the second edition 

 of his Elements of South Indian Paleography, when referring to the list of the 

 years of the cycle of Brhaspati, remarks as follows : " This list is not to be found 

 in the Sanskrit treatises " (page 73, note 4), and " This list is compiled from 

 Colonel Warren's Kala Sankalita, Mr. C. P. Brown's cyclic tables, inscriptions 

 and the practice of the people of Southern India. I am not aware that any 

 old list exists" (page 74, note 2). — Another MS. reads in line 4 Svabha- 

 nusca, in line 5 Vikrtah, in line 7 Hemalambl, in line 9 Virodhikrt, and in 

 line 11 Kalayuktisca Siddhartho Raudridurmatl. 



