History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c7.s1.43

c7.s1.43

There is no evidence to prove that the Tiraiyar of the early Tamil literature were the same as the Pallavas, and the testimony of *Toṇḍamaṇḍalapaṭṭayam* is invalidated as the work is only a work of comparatively modern times. It is not correct to say that in the fourth century the word Pallava was little used by them. In the copper-plate charters of the fourth century as well as the following centuries they are called only as Pallavas and never as Tiraiyan. If Viṣṇugōpa was a Tiraiyan it is strange that he is not mentioned as such in the Allahabad pillar inscription.’