History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.181

c16.181

The two slabs bear on their top a Tamil inscription and below on a counter-sunk surface a bas relief representing a warrior holding a bow and sword. These are dated in the twenty-sixth year of Kō-Vijaya Nṛpatungavarman and record the death of the servant of Pirudi Gangarāyar when the army of the Noḷamba attacked Amayūr, in Mēl-Aḍayāruṇāḍu, a sub-division of Paḍuvūrkōṭṭam for lifting cattle. (Dr. Hultzsch held the view that Piruḍi-Gangarāyar of these inscriptions is perhaps identical with the Western-Ganga King Prthivīpati I.)