History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.41

c16.41

22. Trichinopoly Cave Inscriptions of Mahēndra. Hultzsch, *S.I.I.*, vol. i, pp. 28–30. Two inscriptions in Sanskrit in archaic Pallava-Grantha characters on two pillars in the upper cave of the Rock at Trichinopoly record that a king called Guṇabhara, who bore the *birudas*, *Puruṣottama*, *Satyasaṃdha* and *Śatrumalla*, constructed a temple on the top of the mountain and placed in it a *linga* and a statue of himself. As the Kāvēri is here called ‘the beloved of the Pallavas’ and as the inscription is found in the Chōḷa territory it is clear that the Pallavas had extended their dominions during this period to the region of the Kāvērī.