History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.121

c16.121

The record belongs to the Western Chālukya king Kirtivarman II. The language of the inscription is in Sanskrit and in prose while the characters belong to the southern class of alphabets. After recounting the exploits of Kirtivarman I and Pulakēśin II it says of Vikramāditya I, that he recovered part of the Chālukyan dominions by means of his horse Chitrakāṇtha which had been previously overrun by the Pallavas and had obeisance done to him by them. Vijayāditya though he was taken prisoner, contrived to effect a skilful escape. Of Vikramāditya II the record says that he led an excursion to the Tuṇḍākavishaya, defeated his natural foe, entered the Pallava capital Kāñchī and restored to Rājasimhēśvara and the other temples, heaps of gold and rubies which had been taken away from them. He was succeeded by Kirtivarman II, the donor of the grant. The object of the grant is to register the gift of the village of Bēpatti made at the request of his queen in the sixth year of his reign in Śaka 672 on the occasion of a lunar eclipse.