[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of the Pallavas of Kanchi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928) › c16.40 # History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.40 History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.40 - **Language:** English ### [c16.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c16.40) 21. Mahēndravāḍi Inscription of Guṇabhara. Hultzsch, \*Ep. Ind.\*, vol. iv, pp. 152ff. This inscription is written in the same archaic Pallava alphabet as the Trichinopoly rock inscription and consists of a single Sanskrit verse in the \*kōkilaka\* metre, inscribed on the pilaster on the left end of the facade in the rock-cut temple here. It records the fact that Guṇabhara caused the temple to be cut out of the rock and that it was dedicated to Viṣṇu and bore the name \*Mahendra Viṣṇugṛiha\*, i.e. the Viṣṇu temple of Mahēndra, that it stood on the bank of the \*Mahēndrataṭāka\*, i.e. the tank of Mahēndra and that it was situated in Mahēndrapura, the City of Mahēndra. Mahēndrapura is probably identical with Mahēndravāḍi and Guṇabhara with Mahēndravarman I. - [Previous: c16.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c16.39) - [Next: c16.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c16.41) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c16.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c16.40) · Pramāṇa