The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.235

c8.235

[A.D. 805. Date of accession, according to Fleet, of the Western Ganga king Śivamāra II. He is said to have been anointed by the Rāshṭrakūṭa Gōvinda III, then reigning, and by the Pallava Nandivarman (see note above s.v. 797). The reign of Nandivarman II had come to an end in or about A.D. 779. I suggest that this Nandivarman who anointed ‘with his own hands’ Śivamāra II may have been the prince Nandivarman who afterwards reigned as Nandivarman III, deputed for the purpose by his father Dantivarman then on the throne.¹ (E. I. vi, 59 ; v, 157 ; S. I. I. ii, Part v.)]