SII 12.21: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar PARAMESVARAVARMAN I. No. 21. (A.R. No. 532 of 1907). IN THE ‘DHAMARĀJA-MAṆḌAPA’ IN THE SAME VILLAGE. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0021 DHARMAbase

This inscription is identical in contents with the previous record and proves that the cave temple now called ‘Dharmarāja-maṇḍapa’ was originally a shrine dedicated to Śiva. It was called ‘Atyantakāma-Pallavēśvara-gṛiham’, after one of the surnames of Paramēśvaravarman. As from the styleTwo other rock-cut temples at Mahābalipuram viz, Kōṭikal-maṇḍapa and the five-celled Śiva temple close to it, are also of the same style. of its architecture, this maṇḍapa may be assigned to Mahēndravarman I's time, it is probable, as also suggested by Mr. A.H.Longhurst (Memoir of the Archl. Sur. No. 33, page 10), that the present inscription was incised later by Paramēśvaravarman I who probably completed it.

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Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 19, p. 6 and Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 21, pages 10 and 11.

Digital edition of SII 12.21 by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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