The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.127

c8.127

A.D. 630. [The Pallava king Narasimhavarman I came to the throne probably in this year in succession to Mahēndra I. His territory was shrunk in the north by the Chālukya conquest, but somewhat expanded in the south. In his reign lived Gñāna Sambandar (*Ep. Ind. iii, 278*). The reign is remarkable for the construction by him of the great rock-cut group of temples at Mahābalipuram, on the coast south of Madras, the original name of which was ‘Māmallapuram’ after Māmalla, a *biruda* of Narasimha.