History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c14.3

c14.3

*The Probable Order of Succession.*—It is well known that Toṇḍamaṇḍalam was conquered by Āditya before the twenty-first year of his reign. It is also clear that Parāntaka I ascended the Chōḷa throne in the year A.D. 907.¹ As the Brahmadēśam and Tirukaḷukkuṉṟam inscriptions are dated in the twenty-seventh year of Rājakēsarivarman, who is identical with Āditya I, it may be presumed that the first year of his reign was A.D. 880. One of his inscriptions in the North Arcot District in the twenty-first year of his reign which records a donation near Kāḷahasti shows that by A.D. 900 his empire had extended as far as Kāḷahasti thus covering the Pallava empire.² The reigns of Dantivarman, Nandivarman, Nripatungavarman, Aparājita, Kampavarman and the other miscellaneous kings of the Pallava family whose inscriptions have been discovered in these regions have to be assigned to the period between about A.D. 900 and the last quarter of the eighth century when Pallavamalla ceased to rule. Omitting the reigns of the miscellaneous rulers like Kampavarman, Vayiramēghavarman, Kaṭṭirai, etc., we find that the total reigns of the others so far known comprise a period of roughly 118 years.¹