This record engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters on two detached pillars, gives the birudas of a Pallava king. From the florid variety of the alphabetAtyantakāma, Atiraṇachaṇḍa, etc., the king may be identified with Narasiṁha II whose identical birudas are also found engraved in the Kailāsanātha temple at Conjeeveram which is definitely known to have been constructed by him. As Tiruppōrūr is close to Mahābalipuram, it is possible that the pillars belonged to a structural temple of the time of Narasiṁha II built somewhere in this locality and may have been fixed up in their present position in the Kandasvāmin temple at a later date.
First Pillar.
kāmalaḷitaḥ
kulatilakaḥ
guṇavinīta
dharaṇitilaka
jñānasāgaraḥ
tribhuvanadīpa
Aviratadānaḥ
Īśānaśara
pṛthivīsāraḥ
samaradhanañjaya
Atyantakāmaḥ
Abhayaṁkaraḥ
Avanidivākara
Atiraṇacaṇḍa
Avāritavīryya
Arikarikesarī
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