History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.108

c16.108

Sanskrit and Tamil in the *Grantha-Pallava* characters. Some of the introductory plates containing the genealogy of the Pallava kings are missing. The existing plates commence with the information that a particular king conquered the south, after which the birth of Hiraṇyavarman is recorded. From him was born Nandivarman who bore the *biruda* Ēkadhīra. Of him it is recorded that he took away from an unnamed Ganga-king a neck ornament which contained in it the gem called *Ugrōdaya*. The inscription also gives the name of Nandivarman's elephant as Paṭṭavardhana (v. 7.). The object of the grant was to register the gift of a village called Dayāmukhamangalam to 308 Brahmans learned in the *Vēdas*, and *Smṛtis* who were *Chaturvēdis*, *Trivēdis*, *Sōmayājins*, *Bhaṭṭas*, *Shaḍangavids*, *Kramavids*, etc. Provision was made for the conduct of worship to the local Viṣṇu and the Śiva temples, and also for the recitation of the *Mahābhārata* in the temple-hall. The Sanskrit part of the record ends with the portion which mentions that the *ajñapti* of the charter was Kumāra, the Chief of the Treasury, and the composer of the Praśasti, the poet Paramēśvara-Uttarakāraṇika, the Tamil portion is dated in the fifty-eighth year of Kōviśaiya-Nandivikramavarman and records an order which was issued to the residents of Tenkaraināḍu, a district of Śōḷanāḍu. The donees whose enumeration occupies more than eleven plates, number 244. To judge from their titles it may be presumed that most of them were learned. The concluding portion enumerates the obligations and the immunities of taxation secured by the donees.