History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.81

c16.81

42. Shore Temple Inscription of Rājasimha. *Ep. Col.*, 566 of 1912. *Mad. Ep. Rep. for 1913*, paras 8 and 9. This record consisting of about six Sanskrit verses is inscribed round the plinths of the two *bali-pīṭhas* recently excavated in the shore-temple. The record is not complete but contains an eulogy of a Pallava king whose attributes were *Atyaṇṭakāma*, *Aparājita*, *Śivachūḍāmaṇi*, etc. Another verse refers to him as Rājasimha, Raṇajaya, Śrībhara and Chitrakārmuka and is identical with the twelfth verse of the Kāñchīpuram inscription of Rājasimha. The mention in the record of the king as the ruling sovereign makes it probable that he was Rājasimha son of Paramēśvaravarman I, who bore the surnames Kshatriyasimha and Rājasimha. The two Śiva temples of the Shore Temple Kshatriyasimha and Rājasimhapallavēśvaram were evidently contemporary with Rājasimhapallavēśvaram of Kāñchīpuram and named after Rājasimha.