History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.86

c16.86

44. Inscription in the Kailāsanātha temple of Mahēndravarman II. Hultzsch, *S.I.I.*, vol. i, No. 27, p. 22. The record consists of four Sanskrit verses in Grantha-Pallava characters of Rājasimha's period and registers the fact that Mahēndra, the son of Rājasimha and grandson of Lokāditya built a temple of Śiva and called it Mahēndrēśvara after his own name. The record is engraved round the smaller shrine which stands in front of Rājasimha's Kailāsanātha shrine. It speaks of Lokāditya that ‘his valour dried up the army of Raṇarasika, just as the heat of the sun does the mud.’