The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.370

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the record itself cannot be accepted as genuine, and as proving anything that is mentioned in it.—At the end of the record, there is a Tamil endorsement, dated in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Madiraikoṇḍa-Kô-Parakēsarivarman, i.e. the Chôḷa king Parāntaka I., identical in its wording with the endorsement at the end of the Udayêndiram grant of Nandivarman, son of Hiraṇyavarman, which will be noticed further on. This endorsement appears to be a genuine one, made actually in the time of Parāntaka I., somewhere about A. D. 935. And I strongly suspect that the record was fabricated then, with the intention of passing it off as a charter issued by that same Nandivarman, son of Hiraṇyavarman, and that, his true descent being not available to the person who concocted it, that person simply put in the first names that came handy to him.