History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.147

c16.147

⁸² The Veḷūrpāḷayam Plates. H. K. Sastri, *S.I.I.*, vol. ii, No. 98, pp. 507 ff. Five copper-plates in Sanskrit and Tamil, the seal bearing a Pallava bull in a recumbent posture facing the proper right. After invocatory verses to the supreme being, the legendary origin of the Pallavas is given from Viṣṇu to Pallava through Brahma, Angirasa, Bṛhaspati, Śamyu, Bhāradvāja, Drōṇa and Aśvattāma. Then occur the names of Aśōkavarman, Kāḷabhartṛ, his son Chūta-Pallava, Vīrakūrcha, of whom it is stated that he acquired the emblems of sovereignty on marrying the daughter of the Lord of the Serpants. Their son Skandaśishya is said to have seized the *Ghaṭika* of the Brahmans from Satyasēna. After him was born Kumāraviṣṇu who is stated to have captured Kāñchī. His son Buddhavarman is described to have been a submarine fire to the ocean of the Chōḷa army. After Viṣṇugōpa and several other kings had passed away Nandivarman I was born who is credited with having subjected a powerful snake