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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY CHALUKYAS OF GUJARAT 20th March. The sankrānti thus did not take place during the tithi of the date, but such slight discrepancies in regard to the moment of sańkrāntis are not infrequently met with. Besides, the auspicious moment (punya-kāla) of the Mēsha sankranti extends to as many as fifteen ghatikās before and after the sankrānti1. It would seem, therefore, that though the sankrānti took place a little before noon of the 20the March 685 A.C., the gift was made in the evening when the tenth tithi was current2. Hence the latter is coupled with the sankrānti in the present grant3. Of the geographical names occurring here, the rivers Mahī and Narmadā are too well-known to need identification. Nāsikya is plainly identical with Nasik, the well-known holy place in the Bombay State. Dhōņdhaka, the donated village, is, as already pointed out by Mr. Khare, clearly identical with Dhōņdēgāon, 12 miles north by west of Nasik.
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