The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.300

c8.300

A.D. c. 895. Inscription in Travancore State of the twenty-eighth year of Vikramāditya Varaguṇa, the Āy king, or chief, of Vēṇāḍ. My only reason for assigning the date 895 is because this same king had given a grant in A.D. 868 (see above, and A.D. 895 is about twenty-eight years later.) T. A. Gōpinātha Rao stated his belief that Vikramāditya was called ‘Varaguṇa’ after the Pāṇḍya Varaguṇa II. (V.R. iii. Trav. 2 ; T.A. S. i, pp. 1, 17, 187.)