History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.44

c16.44

24. Daḷavānūr Cave Inscription of Narēndra. Hultzsch, *Ep. Ind.*, vol. xii, p. 225; *Ep. Col.*, Nos. 50 and 51 of 1905. Sanskrit and Tamil. The inscriptions are written on a pillar in a rock-cut cave at Daḷavānūr in the Tindivanam Taluk of the South Arcot District. The first inscription consists of a single Sanskrit *śloka* which states that the cave-temple containing the inscription was executed at the order of Śatrumalla and named Śatrumallēśvarālaya. The second is divided into two sections of which one is Tamil verse and the other prose, and records the same fact. The name of the locality is stated to be Veṇpaṭṭu. Narēndra is only a surname of Pallava Mahēndravarman I and the reference to the donor as *Toṇḍaiyamtārvendan* confirms this surmise.