The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.392

c8.392

A.D. 955. Rock inscription on the Bāvāji Hill at Vellore, N. Arcot, shewing that in this year the Noḷamba-Pallava chief Tribhuvanadhīra (see above s. v. 952) bought the village of Ukkal from ‘Vīra Choḷa’, i.e., the Western Ganga chief Prithivīpati II, who bore that title. The reigning suzerain was the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Krishna III (V. R. i. N. Arcot 592 ; 10 of 1887 ; E. I. iv. 81). The inscription is dated in the twenty-sixth year of his reign (i.e., 962-63).