History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c7.s1.27

c7.s1.27

Thus the word which was written Palhava in A.D. 78 was written Pahlava in A.D. 150 and we note when we see the Girnar inscription, that the compound letter ‘hla’, resembles the double ‘ll’. Besides in Mayidavolu plates written in Prakrit this question of letters has been solved in a very simple manner, they wrote Pālava. This can correspond to Pallava for in Prakrit the consonants are not doubled. In the Hirahadagalli plates it is written as Pallava though they are also in Prakrit. Later on when the documents were written in Sanskrit the word Pallava would be understood to mean ‘sprout’.