The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.477

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Another is the grant of the *Râja* Attivarman, from the Guṇṭûr District, Madras Presidency.¹ It records a grant of some land at the village of Tânthikontha on the south bank of the river Kṛiṣhṇaveṇṇâ, *i.e.* the Kṛiṣhṇa,² and also of a village named Antukkûra. This grant has been treated as a Pallava record. But Attivarman is described as born in the family of king Kandara, which was descended from the lineage of the great saint Ânanda, and was purified by worshipping the god *Śambhu*, *i.e.* Śiva, at Vakêśvara or Vaṅkêśvara. And, now that we know more about the early history and Purâṇic genealogy of the Pallavas, it is difficult to adapt these details to their accounts, though Attivarman does, like the Pallavas, claim to belong to the posterity of the god Hiraṇyagarbha, *i.e.* Brahman.³ On the other hand, the name Kandara,—and, doubtless Kandara also,—is a variant of Kṛiṣhṇa; and this suggests that we may possibly have here an early Râṣhṭrakûṭa record.