SII 12.26: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar 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 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0026 DHARMAbase

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 TiruppōrūrNo. 27 below. 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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Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XVIII, pages 150 and 151.

Digital edition of SII 12.26 by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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