History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c13.32

c13.32

‘From the high regnal years given in the lithic regards⁵ of Mahābalipuram and in this copper-plate (Koṟṟanguḍi plates) grant, the kings Nandipotavarman and Ko-Vijaya Nandivikramavarman mentioned in them respectively must be identical with Kovijaya Nandivikramavarman (Nandivarman III) of the Taṇḍantōṭṭam plates and the Tiruvallam rock inscription.¹ But some of the exploits recorded of this king in this record, conquest over the Vallabha, Kaḷabhra, Kēraḷa, Pāṇḍya, Chōḷa, Tuḷuva and Konkaṇa as well as the invocation to Viṣṇu in the commencement of the record militates strongly against the view which attributes this record to Nandivarman III whose sole achievements that we know of were the series of victories ending with that at Teḷḷāṟu mentioned frequently in his inscriptions. It is therefore probable more especially as Nandivarman II is described to have followed Hiraṇyavarman that this record belongs to Nandivarman II.² The duration of his reign may therefore be definitely taken as not less than sixty-five years so far as present epigraphic evidence goes and that Nandivarman Pallavamalla lived at least to the age of seventy-seven.