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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI the Pāśupata ascetic Bhāvatējas of the Ananta gōtra, constructed a temple of Śiva near which the inscribed stone was originally put up. The praśasti, as the inscription is called in v. 15, was composed by Pŗithvīdhara, the son of the Brāhmaņa Dharaņīdhara. It was incised by the architect Mahīdhara. The date of the record is rather clumsily expressed in words as Sunday, the first
tithi of the bright fortnight of the month Śuchi (or Āshādha) while the Chēdi era was
increasing to nine hundred and a couple of years during the reign of the illustrious
Gayākarņa. This is one of the few dates in which the era is specifically named. The
date is quite regular; for the first tithi of the bright fortnight of Āshādha in the expired
Chēdi or Kalachuri year 902 ended 2 h. after mean sunrise on the 17th June 1151 A.C.
which was a Sunday as stated in the present inscription. 1 From the original stone and inked estampages.
CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM
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