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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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The Pallava genealogy for this period would therefore
in the eleventh year of the latter's reign. stand thus -
Kumāravishņu I.
Skandavarman I.
Viravarman s. a. Virakorchavarman.
Skandavarman II.
Vishņugopa II. Simhavarman.
Vijaya-Vishnugopa III. Dubreuil supposes that Skandavarman of the Chendalür plates was the father of Kumāravishnu I of the earlier Omgõdu grant. On the other hand it would be reasonable to identify him with Skandavarman II, son of Viravarman, and grandson of Skandavarman I, because of the epithets applied to him which are mostly the same as those given to him in the Pikira and Omgõdu grants and our present grant, though epithets alone are not sufficient for the identification of kings as the same epithets are applied to different kings, as pointed out by me above. If, how. ever, my identification is correct, we may have, for this period, a tertative genealogy as follows :
Kumāravishņu I.
Skandavarman I.
Kumāravishņu II.
Viravarman.
Buddhavarman
Skandavarman II.
Kumāravishņu III of the Chendalūr plates.
Yuvamahārāja Vishnugopa.
Simhavarman.
This arrangement would not only suit Dr. Hultzsch's argument about the later nature of the characters of the Chendalür plates but also we have a clue herein to suppose that the first Kumāravishnu of these plates was probably named after his grandfather Kumäravishnu of the earlier Omgõdu grant. This would also remove the inconsistency in Prof. Dubreuil's scheme which, while suggesting a palæographical resemblance between the Uruvupalli and the Chendalur charters, places Kumāravishņu II of the latter on a collateral plane with Viravarman, the grandfather of Vishnugopa and the great grandfather (according to Dr. Hultzsch) of Simhavarman of the former. With these arguments kept in our view we will have to designate Kumāravishņu, the donor of the Chendalûr plates as Kumāravishņu III. His father Buddhavarman is stated in the Vēlürpälaiyam plates, to have conquered the Choļas while his grandfather Kumaravishnu had
1 The conjecture seems to be rather far-fetched. On the other hand the position of Vishnugopa seems to have been such that he was not able to issue any document in his own name.-Ed.]
* Loc. cit., pp. 60ff.
Tno genealogical table given on p. 503 of S. 1. 1., Vol. II, drawn up before the discovery of the Omgodu grants, requires modification. Loc. cit., p. 67.
58. 1. 1., Vol. II, p. 502.
