History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s2.43

c17.s2.43

In the Velurpalaiyam plates the Skanda-śishya who is the father of Kumāra Vishṇu and the grandfather of Buddhavarman is clearly Skandavarman II, whose son, as we know from the inscription of Kumāra Vishṇu III [E.I., VIII, 233], was Kumāra Vishṇu II. In the Velurpalaiyam plates it is not stated, as has been wrongly assumed by the editor of the plates and writers of some text-books, that he (Skandaśishya) was us to identify Kumāra Viṣṇu with Virakorcha-varman of the Darśi plate, who would thus be the great-grandfather of Skandavarman II. Sanskrit is found for the first time employed by the latter in the grants; the Darśi plate which is in Sanskrit seems to have been issued by him. Use of two alternative names in documents we know of from the later Vākāṭaka plates of Prabhāvatī Guptā and Pravarasena II, and earlier from the inscriptions of Aśoka. The repetition of the name Vīra as the name of the son of Skanda-varman I also proves the identity of Virakurcha with Kumāra-Viṣṇu I, father of Skanda-varman I., grandfather's name being repeated in grandson's. The early genealogy thus will stand as follows:—