History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.61

c16.61

This inscription records that the monolith on which it is engraved was a Śiva temple and was called the Īśvara temple of Atyantakāma-Pallava. From *ślōka* 2 of this inscription Dr. Hultzsch has concluded that Atyantakāma must be either Paramēśvaravarman I, father of Rājasimha, or Paramēśvaravarman II, his son, preferably the former. The alphabets of Atyantakāma’s inscription of the Seven Pagodas bear so close a resemblance to Kailāsanātha temple epigraphs of Rājasimha that both of them may be assigned to about the same period (viz.) the third quarter of the seventh century A.D. Among Atyantakāma’s surnames the following are given—*Śrinidhi*, *Śrībhara*, *Raṇajaya*, *Taruṇāṅkura*, *Kāmarāga*.