History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.31

c16.31

15. Udayēndiram plates (spurious) of Nandivarman. Kielhorn, *Ep. Ind.*, vol. iii, p. 142; also *Ind. Ant.*, vol. iii, p. 167. Three copper-plates with a circular seal containing in bas-relief a standing bull. Language, Sanskrit in the southern script. The donor of the inscription is said to have been a devout worshipper of Vishṇu and the law-abiding Mahārāja Nandivarman of the *Bhāradvajagōtra*. He is said to have been the son of Mah. Skandavarman, the grandson of Mah. Simhavarman, and the great-grandson of Mah. Skandavarman. It registers the order of the King conveyed from Vijaya-Kāñchīpura recording a gift of the village of Kāñchivāyil, and four pieces of forest land situated in the district of Aḍayāra to a Brahman inhabitant of Kāñchivāyil named Kuḷaśarman. The grant was issued in the fifth lunar day of *Vaiśakhā* in the first year of the reign. The Tamil endorsement on the first plate which is dated in the twenty-sixth year of *Madiraikoṇḍa-Ko-Parakēsari* records the amalgamation of two villages.