The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.421

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Of Narasimhavarman II., we have a record in the Conjeeveram inscription No. 24, at the Kailâsanâtha temple.² This is a record of a Pallava king named Râjasimha, with the birudas of Atyantakâma, Ranajaya, and Srîbhara. It mentions his father by the biruda of Ugradanda, describing him as "the destroyer of the city of Ranarasika," and also by the proper name of Paramêsvara.³ And it thus enables us to determine the identity of the persons named in it.⁴ The hostilities between the Chalukyas and the Pallavas began in the early years of Pulikêsin II., when, in the course of quieting the general disturbances that arose on the death of Mangalêsa and of consolidating his own power at Bâdâmi, he attacked the Pallavas and drove their leader, probably Mahêndravarman I., back behind the walls of Kâñchî. Accordingly, Ugradanda-Paramêsvara cannot be placed, as regards the Chalukyas, before the time of Pulikêsin II., and, as regards the Pallavas, before the time of Mahêndravarman I., or of Narasimhavarman I.. And, as Ranarasika was a biruda of Vikramâditya I., son of Pulikêsin II.,⁵ it is plain that Ugradanda Paramêsvara was a contemporary of Vikramâditya I., and is to be identified with Paramêsvaravarman I., who is expressly mentioned in the Kûram grant as putting Vikramâditya I. to flight, and that his son Râjasimha is to be identified with Narasimhavarman II. Further, the shrine, round the outside of which this inscription is engraved, is, in the record itself, called