# SII 12.26: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: NARASIMHAVARMAN II RAJASIMHA. No. 26. (A.R. No. 368
of 1908). VĀYALŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN
THE GŌPURA OF THE VYĀGHRAPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0026

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0026.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

This inscription is engraved in florid Pallava-Grantha characters in the
form of a helix on a cubical pillar of the Pallava type, supporting the
gōpura in front of the temple. The pillar seems to have belonged to some
other temple in the vicinity. Of Pallava structural monuments in the
Chingleput district, only those at Mahābalipuram and Conjeeveram are
known. The pillars at Vāyalūr and Tiruppōrūr[1] suggest the existence of
other such monuments in the district.

The present record purports to give the genealogy of Pallava kings from
Brahmā down, through fifty-four generations, to king Rājasiṁha. The last
verse of the inscription suggests that it was intended to perpetuate the
accession of Rājasiṁha (Narasiṁha II) to the throne.

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## Commentary

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XVIII, pages 150 and 151.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.26 by Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu
1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
12, item 26.

[1] No. 27 below.