History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c14.44

c14.44

¹ v. 16. S.I.I., vol. ii, part 5, p. 515. The translation of the late T. A. Gopinatha Rao which Prof. Jouveau-Dubreuil follows requires to be reconsidered in view of an altered reading of the verse given in Dr. Hultzsch's of verse 16 (p. 50, Pallavas) text (*Ep. Ind.*, vol. xviii, p. 10) in which the sixteenth verse reads as follows :— Yatprasādā(r)jjitāsēnā Pāṇḍyēna Samarē purā | Pārērichitsarājyaśrārdadāha ripusamhatim || We have here no reference to the defeat sustained (by the Pallavas) at the hands of the Pāṇḍyas referred to in Gopinatha Rao's translation. Dr. Hultzsch translates the verse thus :—Resembling fire, this king (Nripatunga) by whose favour the Pāṇḍya had obtained an army formerly burnt a confederation of enemies on the further bank of the Arichit river. The supply of an army by Nripatunga to the Pāṇḍyan king, if the reading is correct, will necessitate a revision of our present views of the relationship of the Pallavas and Pāṇḍyas during this period.