South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c9.41

c9.41

From two cave inscriptions at the rock-temple of Trichinopoly we find that a Pallava King named Gunabhara constructed a temple of Siva on the top of the mountain and placed in it a linga and a statue of himself. He also caused a stone image of Siva to be established here. In the grant from Kuram a Pallava King Paramesvara Varmana is described as "constantly clever in the sport of the fine arts."² In the legendary account of the conquest of Kanchipuram, the Pallava capital, by Adondai Chola, amongst the trophies of the battle acquired by the latter a reference is made to a bronze gate of the Pural fort³