History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c14.17

c14.17

One of his Tamil inscriptions dated in the twelfth year of his reign has been discovered at the Pārthasārathi temple at Triplicane (Madras).⁴ This inscription consists of nineteen lines of Tamil prose and is on a stone close to the entrance of the garbhagṛiha of the temple. Dantivarman is here described as ‘ the ornament of the Pallava family ’ and as belonging to the Bhāradvāja Gotra. The object of the inscription is to record a gift of land. It is clear from this record that the Triplicane temple which is mentioned also in the hymns of the first Āḷvārs, continued to flourish during this period. Tirumangai Āḷvār, one of the Vaishṇava Āḷvārs, refers to this temple and the locality, and has recorded the important fact that a Pallava king constructed the temple.⁵