History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c13.s1.15

c13.s1.15

‘ While the twenty-second year of his reign was current, this Rājādhirāja-paramēśvara, the Mahārāja called Nandivarman, who is engaged in ruling the kingdom of Paramēśvarapōtarāja, . . . was himself pleased to give as a Brahmadēya, as requested by Brahmaśrīrāja . . . who just as Bṛhaspati is minister of Indra, the lord of heaven, is the chief minister of the handsome Nandin, the lord of the earth and the chief of the Pallavas, to Jyēshṭapada Somayājin, who has mastered the ocean-like Vedas, who chants the Sāman hymns which are pleasant on account of their melody (rasa); who has completed the rehearsal and the study of the six auxiliary works, namely, the ritual of the Veda, grammar, astronomy, etymology, phonetics and metrics; who knows the properties of words, sentences and subjects; who has drunk the elixir of the śruti and smṛti; who is learned in the portion referring to rites (Karmakāṇḍa) and the portion referring to knowledge (Jñānakāṇḍa); who is skilled in the ways of the world and in the knowledge of the arts; who is versed in the poems, dramas, stories, epics and legends; in short who is skilled in all branches of (holy and profane) knowledge; who is expert in the performance of all rites; who is of good conduct; (who illumines) the world as a lamp does a house; who is courteous (in spite of) the honour paid to him and of noble