# SII 12.38: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: NANDIVARMAN II. No. 38. (A.R. No. 666 of 1922).
MAHĀBALIPURAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON TWO SIDES OF A
SLAB LYING IN THE COURTYARD OF THE VARĀHA CAVE-TEMPLE

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0038

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0038.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

This inscription is dated in the 65th year of Nandibōdhuvarman
(Nandippōttavarman) who belonged to the Pallava-vaṁśa. It registers a
gift of pasture land by Iḍaivaḻañjāṉ Kaṇḍaṉ, one of the Nagarattār of
Māmallapuram, after purchasing it from Kōṉ-Kaṇḍaṉ, son of Iḷan
Paduvuṇār, the headman of Kuṉṟattūr in Āmūr-kōṭṭam. The villages of
Kuṉṟattūr and Āmūr are near Mahābalipuram in the Chingleput district.

The regnal year given in this record is the highest known date for
Nandivarman (II).

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## Commentary

Published in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 26,
pp. 10-11.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.38 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
16, item 38.