Pallava Architecture, Part I (MASI 17) c2.66

c2.66

It is now generally accepted that “ Gunabhara ” was a surname of Mahēndravarman I. One inscription (No. 33 above) states that “ Now that Gunabhara is a worshipper of the linga, let the knowledge that he has turned back from hostile conduct be spread far and wide by this linga.” This evidently refers to Mahēndra’s former persecution of the saint Appar, who afterwards converted him to the cult of the linga as already related above (vide Epigraphia Indica, Volume III, page 277).