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XV Contributions to Singhalese Chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

E. Hultzsch
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This article is an attempt to establish critically the synchronisms which appear to exist between the mediaeval portion of the Ceylon chronicle Mahāvaṁsa and the results of South Indian epigraphical research. The definite dates to which a number of Chōḷa and Pāṇḍya kings can now be assigned are due to the laborious and difficult calculations of my late friend Kielhorn, while several of the synchronisms were discovered by another old friend and fellow-worker, Rai Bahadur V. Venkayya, the melancholy news of whose sudden death at Madras on November 21, 1912, reached me while I was collecting materials for this article from his learned Reports.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1913 , pp. 517 - 531
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1913

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page 518 note 1 The Mah. (80, 18) calls him Kitti-Nissaṅka.

page 519 note 1 ARE. for 1898–9, p. 13.

page 519 note 2 ARE. for 1905–6, p. 70, par. 23.

page 519 note 3 Nos. 80, 94, 96, 98, and 102 of Wijesinha's Chronological Table of Sovereigns.

page 520 note 1 According to the Mah. (59, 46) three relatives of hers, one of whom was named Madhukaṇṇava, came to Ceylon from Sīhapura. The name Madhukaṇṇava reminds us of the Eastern Gāṅga king Madhu-Kāmārṇava (see EI. iv, 186 and the table facing it). Sīhapura is identical with Siṁhapura in the inscriptions of Niśśaṅkamalla and Sāhasamalla (cf. p. 518 above), in the Kōmarti plates of Chaṇḍavarman (EI. iv, 143), and in the Bōihatprōshṭhā grant of Umavarman which will be published shortly in EI. xi.

page 520 note 2 A Pāṇḍya king named Māavarman alias Śrīvallabhadēva is known to have ruled in a.d. 1160–1; see Rao Sahib H. Krishna Sastri's ARE. for 1908–9, p. 79, par. 22.

page 521 note 1 Translation of the Mah., introduction, p. xxix.

page 522 note 1 Read sandhilekhaṁ?

page 522 note 2 ARE. for 1906–7, p. 63 f.

page 523 note 1 ARE. for 1907–8, p. 40, No. 439, and p. 76, par. 55.

page 525 note 1 ARE. for 1906–7, p. 73, par. 34.

page 526 note 1 ARE. for 1906–7, p. 72, par. 33.

page 526 note 2 Ibid., par. 32.

page 527 note 1 This is probably a misprint for Kaṇḍuveṭṭi, as Wijesinha's translation reads.

page 528 note 1 Wijesinha's Chron. Table, p. xx.

page 528 note 2 See the remarks on p. 523 above.

page 528 note 3 These figures would have to be lessened by four if the date quoted from the Śāsanāvatāra in Wijesinha's Chron. Table under No. 102 is correct.

page 529 note 1 Dyn. Kan. Distrs., p. 359.Google Scholar

page 529 note 2 Madras edition of 1888, pp. 10–12.

page 530 note 1 See Rangacharya, Rao Bahadur M.'s Catalogue of Tamil MSS., vol. i (Madras, 1912), p. 372 ff. and p. 462 ff.Google Scholar

page 530 note 2 Cf. the Madras monthly Siddhānta Dīpikā, vol. xiii, p. 434Google Scholar. For another mention of the “bell of justice” in the Śilappadigāram see IA. xxxvii, 232.

page 530 note 3 ARE. for 1890–1, p. 3, par. 5.

page 530 note 4 On a Tiruvārūr inscription of Anapāya, in whose time Śēkkiār is said to have composed the Periyapurāṇam, see SII. ii, 153 f., and IA. xxxvi, 288.

page 531 note 1 Cf. p. 518 above.

page 531 note 2 Wijesinha's Chron. Table, p. xxv, No. 143.

page 531 note 3 Elliot & Dowson's History of India, iii, 53. In this Journal for 1909, p. 669, I have wrongly proposed to identify the Kulasekhara of Mah. 90, 47 with Māavarman Kulaśēkhara II.