History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c14.74

c14.74

Vayiramēghavarman.—Two stone records have been discovered at the Agastyēśvara temple at Poyyanūr in the Arkonam Taluk which mentions the name of a new king apparently belonging to the Pallava family dated in the second year. According to the late V. Venkayya, the name Vayiramēgha was a biruda assumed by Dantivarman, and is the same name occurring in th eexpressions Vayiramēgataṭāka, Vayiramēghavāykkāl, etc., mentioned in the inscriptions. It has to be presumed that the name is more like Pallava than other dynastic names.