SII 12.24: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Alternative title: “NARASIMHAVARMAN II RAJASIMHA. No. 24. (A.R. No. 534 of 1907). IḌAIYANPANDAL NEAR ŚĀḶUVAṄKUPPAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE LEFT WALL OF THE ROCK-CUT MAṆḌAPA.”

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: This inscription which consists of seven Sanskrit verses engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters, records that the cave temple was constructed by king Atiraṇachaṇḍa and that it was called ‘Atiraṇachaṇḍēśvara’ after his surname. Three of the verses in the present record are also found in Nos. 20 and 21 above and contain the birudas: Atyantakāma, Śrīnidhi, Kāmarāga and Śrībhara. Other surnames of the king were Raṇajaya, Anugraśīla, Kālakāla, Samara-Dhanaṁjaya and Saṁgrāmadhīra. Since most of these epithets including Atiraṇachaṇḍa are also applied to Rājasiṁha in his inscription at Conjeeveram,¹ the present record may be assigned to him. Dr. Hultzsch took Atiraṇachaṇḍa as a title of Nandivarman Pallavamalla,² but considering the palaeography and the architectural style of the maṇḍapa, it seems better to take it as referring to Rājasiṁha.³

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Commentary

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 21, and Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 23.

Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.24 by Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 11, item 24.

Notes

1. South Indian Inscriptions Vol. I, p. 15.
2. Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, p. 4.
3. See also Memoir of the Archaeological Survey, No. 33, pages 46 and 47.

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