History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.46

c16.46

This inscription written on the beams of the upper and lower verandahs of the cave temple at Pallavaram in archaic Pallava-grantha-characters. Fragment. It gives a list of *birudas* of which some are Sanskrit, others Telugu. Of these *Śrī-Mahēndravikrama*, *Mattavilāsa*, *Chēthakāri*, *Vichitrachitta*, *Aluptakāma*, *Kalahapriya*, and *Saṅkīrṇajāti* are in Sanskrit and *Nilvilonayambu*, *Ventulavittu*, etc., are in Telugu. Some of these *birudas* are those of Mahēndravarman.