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Videlviḍugu as stated already, and it is after this title that the father of the engraver of the grant must have been called Videlviḍugu-Pallava-perundachchanowaldensten stimp ad of that It is noteworthy the ajnapt of our inscription, viz., Alappakka (Alabakka) Vijaiyanallulan figures in an inscription of Pallavatilaka-Nandivarman found at Tiruvellagar in the Trichinopoly district. This chief's younger brother, Kamban Araiyad by name, figures as the constructor of a big well in the same place as recorded in an inscription of Pallavatilaka Dantivarman. It is now beyond question from the present grant that these kings Pallavatilaka-Nandivarman and Pallavatilaka-Dantivarman," in n, in whose inscriptions figure the two brothers Vijayanallulan and Kamban Araiyan as donors, are identical with Nandivarinan Pallavamalla and his son and successor Dantivurman. Thus it becomes clear that the term Pallavatilaka was not the surname of any particular king of the Pallava Hine which was later on adopted as a title by his successors. In editing the Tiruvellafal well mscription was mielitied to follow the late Mr. Venkayya in considering the successors of Dantivarman as belonging to the family of Pallavatilaka, that being almost the special designation then known to be of Dantivarman as indicated in the Triplicane inscription of that king The present gran shows that gharter-writers did not mean any distinction between Pallavakula and Pallabatilababula Therefore, in case we meet with inscriptions of Nandivarman or Dantivarman with the word Pallavatilaka or Pallavatilakakula prefixed to their names, we have to distinguish the king from those who bore similar names, by other evidences than what is furnished by the mere title Pallavatilaka. In this connection, it may be pointed out that Adigal Gandan Marambavai, who figures as donor in a record of the early Chōla king Rajakesarivarman (Aditya L) and who is stated to be the queen of Pallavatilaka-Nandivarman", cannot be the queen of Pallavamalla, for Aditya I and Pallavamalla are sepa ated by over a century in all probability she must have been the queen of Pal'avamalla's grandson Nandivarman III Row (avagerill
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As has been noted, the present inscription is dated in the 61st year of the king's reign. In my Historical Sketches, I gave my consideration to the question whether or not Nandivarman Pallavamalla could have reigned for a long time, usurper as he was then known to be, and taking only into view the several conquests he effected and the time of rule of his contemporaries, I arrived at the conclusion that he should be credited with a long period of rule. This conclusion is now made certain by a study of the Vaikuntha Perumal label epigraphs and the present copper-plate grant according to both of which the price was quite young i.e. 12 years of age, when he became king and by the fact of the present inscription being dated in the 61st year. The latest regnal year, however, of Pallavamalla is the 65th which is furnished in a Mahabalipuram inscription recently discovered by me in the courtyard of the VarahaPerumal cave. If this be the last year of his rule, the king should have lived up to his 77th year of age. de segon selloutoralis nammavibas Jeilt wodz stost ovode sdf
It may be noted that the titles Ferumbidugo, Videlvidagu hu Mataplug which had been awumed by the feudatory chiefs of the Muttaraiyans might have been derived from the Pallava who were thein overlords. In the extract given from the Vaikuntha Perumal tesitple inscription, it is seen that at the time of Pallavamalla's coronation he was invested with the new pam Vidalvidugu while the Tiruvellarai, well inscription shows that Pallavamalla's son Dantivarman was called Marapiqugfter visto ai enninirent 3971 No. 63 of the Madras pie Epigraphical collection for 1905.
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Lea Mbank 0936 qt de troon bi-diso South-Ind. Inscrns., Vol. III, p. 229. "Historical Sketches of Ancient Dekkhan, pp. 45 ff. br This inscription is under publication in the Memoirs of the Adh. Surv Department by M. Ry. Rao Bahadur H. Krishna Sastri, along with 4 other new inscripti ns and some sculptures discovered by me at Mahabalipuram in the year 1922.
