The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.290

c8.290

A.D. 879–80. Ambūr in N. Arcot. Inscription of the twenty-sixth year of the Pallava chief Nṛipatunga, commemorating the death of a servant of the W. Ganga chief Prithivīpati I (now deceased—killed in battle) during a cattle raid. These raids, accompanied by constant violence and outrage, appear to have been of common occurrence, judging by the number of memorial Vīrakals which have been found. Women as well as cattle were carried off. No one’s property was safe, nor could they tell from day to day when a descent would be made on their village, and their daughters outraged. Deaths in fighting were very numerous. The robber bands were sometimes the males of a village, sometimes of a group of villages, sometimes of a whole district (nāḍu). In these pages no note is made of individual epitaphs unless they contain some date or historical allusion. V. Rangachāri’s lists may be consulted, especially in the districts of North Arcot, Chittoor and the neighbourhood. (V. R. i. N. Arcot, 536, 537; E. R. 7, 8 of 1896; E. I. iv, 182.)