History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c13.s1.10

c13.s1.10

Religious Leanings.—The religious leanings of Nandivarman Pallavamalla were towards Vaishṇavism. His celebrated contemporary seems to allude to his worshipful attitude in the present tense in his hymn on the God of Aṣṭabhuja at Kāñchī. His copper-plates describe him as never accustomed to bowing ‘excepting to the pair of worshipful feet of Mukunda’ (Viṣṇu)¹ as worshipping the feet of Hari.² The newly-found plates of Koṟṟanguḍi devote several invocatory verses to Viṣṇu (verses 1 and 2). The unnamed Pallava king who is mentioned by Tirumaṅgai Āḻvār as having worshipped at Śrīrangam is presumably Nandivarman Pallavamalla³ as also the king called Nandi in the Nandipuraviṇṇagarapatikam.