History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s3.45

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implying that it had been resumed by the authority just preceding, which could not be that of any other than the Pallavas, from whom Mayūra Śarman is recorded to have acquired the territory on account of, amongst other considerations, his past ‘lineage’, that is, the ex-royal dynasty of the Chuṭu Mānavyas. It is dated in the 4th year of the king's reign. I regard it to be a writ of Mayūra Śarman, a fragment of his name is readable on the plate (§ 162). He was vindicating here the right of his family. He recovered his family's home-land, and revived their gift. The relationship with that ancient respectable family of the Kauṇḍinyas, who had been probably imported there by his ancestors, had continued in the meantime, as the new donee is described as the mātula (maternal uncle) of the donor king.