History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.163

c16.163

Original plates missing. The record which is in Sanskrit and Tamil consists of about thirty verses in Sanskrit. The first contains an invocation to Vishnu while the next five furnish the mythical pedigree from Brahma to Pallava, through Āngirasa and Śamyu, Bhāradvāja, Drōṇa and Aśvattāman. In the lineage of the Pallava was born Vimala, Koṅkaṇika, etc., after whose demise came Dantivarman a devotee of Vishnu who was equal to Indra and who had obeisance done to him by other Kings. From Dantivarman was born the powerful Nandivarman, who is described as having taken the earth unaided in battle, and who had married Śaṅkā born in the Rāṣṭrakūṭa family. Their son was Nṛpatungadēva who was the donor famous in other worlds, as Rāma was and who is said to have been victorious in the battle of Kālava (?) and who defeated the Pāṇḍyan armies on the banks of the Arichit. The object of the record is to register the gift of three villages, Cheṭṭupākkam, Viḷāṅgāṭṭukaḍuvanur, and Iraippuṇaichēri to the College of Vedic studies at Bāhūr (Vidyāsthāna). The villages were freed from all taxes. The Tamil portion dated in the eighth year of Vijaya-Nṛpatungavarman records the announcement of the gift to the residents of the Bāhūr village and refers to Viḍēlviḍugu-Kāḍupaṭṭi-Tamiḷapēraraiyan as the Āgñapti, and that the villages as being situated in the subdivision of Aruvānāḍu.