Ciṉṉanākapūṇṭi, time of Narasi[ṁhavarman], year (2)

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00349.

Summary: See ARIE 1943–1945 (p. 23): “Fragment. In characters of about the 9th century A.D.”

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (61a9e6c), last modified (37429fa).

Edition

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Commentary

See ARIE 1943–1945 (p. 56): “At Chinnanāgapūṭi, Chittoor District, was found a record (No. 133 of 1943-44) of Kō-Vijaya-Narasi[ṁhavarman] incised in Tamil characters of the 9th century A.D. He is apparently identical with the homonynous chief figuring in the Kīḻmuttukūr and Baṅgavāḍi inscriptions of the same period. In the A.R. for 1933-34, Part II, para. 6, a chieftain of this name whose record is engraved in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters has been assigned to the Western Gaṅga dynasty. But the reasons given there for treating him as a prince of this family are not satisfactory. Until more convincing evidence is found it would be safe not to connect him with any known ruling family of this period and region. ”

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1943–1945 (ARIE/1943-1945/B/1943-1944/133) and in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 349).

ASI transcript and estampage, if any, yet to be consulted.

Primary

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Item 349, page 748.

Secondary

ARIE 1943–1945. Annual reports on South Indian epigraphy for the years 1943-44 and 1944-45. By N. Laksminarayan Rao. Delhi: Government of India, 1955. Pages 23, 56 (§5), appendixes B/1943-1944, item 133.