History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.112

c16.112

⁶¹ Koṟṟanguḍi Plates No. 5 of App. A, 1922-3. Q.J M.S., vol. xiv, pp. 125-139. Also Ep. Ind., vol. xviii, pp. 115 ff. Five copper-plates written on eight sides unearthed from a hamlet of Kottamangalam in Tanjore District. The engraving is partly in Grantha and partly Tamil. The record consists of eleven Sanskrit verses and a prose passage in Tamil. It opens with invocatory verses to Viṣṇu. Then is given the usual mythical genealogy of Pallava through Brahma, Aṅgiras, Bṛahaspati, etc. Verses 4 and 5 give a panegyric account of the Pallava family. The historical account which begins with (v. 6.) states that after Virākūrcha and others had gone to heaven, Hiraṇyavarma became king. Then came Nandivarma while yet he was very young and his conquests over Vallabha, Kaḷabhra, Kēraḷa Pandya and Chola, are detailed. The Tamil portion is dated in the sixty-first year of the reign of Ko. Vij. Nandivikramavarman and registers a gift of land which was received by the Brahmans of Nalgūr. The names of the donees are then enumerated.