History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.139

c16.139

²⁹¹ This inscription consists of nineteen lines of Tamil prose and is found in the *garbhagṛha* of the Pārthasārathi temple at Triplicane. It is dated in the twelfth year of Dantivarma-Mahārāja who is described as the ornament of the Pallava family and as belonging to the *Bhāradvāja-gōtra*. The object of the inscription is to record that the priests of the temple had mortgaged a field belonging to the temple and in consequence the interest of forty-five