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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA regarding his deeds here are unfortunately lost. However, the Vēḷvikkuḍi plates make up what the Perumbuḷḷi record lacks, for, they refer to Kulumbūr as one of the battle fields where Māravarman Rājasiṁha, the predecessor of Jaṭilavarman Parāntaka Neḍuñ-jaḍaiyan defeated the Pallava king and captured his countless huge elephants and horses. It may be noted here that the mention of the battle of Kulumbūr in these records establishes indirectly the identity of Varaguṇa I with Jatilavarman Parāntaka Nēḍuñjaḍaiyan of the Vēḷvikkuḍi plates and Jaṭila, son of Maravarman Rājasiṁhan of the Madras Museum plates.[1] We thus see that four successive Pāṇḍya kings[2] down from Māravarman Rājasiṁha were served successively by four successive chiefs beginning with Paḷḷivēḷān. The identities established above may be conveniently set in a tabular form as shown below.─
To revert now to the donor Paḷḷivēḷān Nakkam-Puḷḷan and his overlord, Varaguṇa-mahārāja, we have already noted that the king conferred a status befitting the chief in appreciation of the services that he rendered his liege. The very first act that Nakkam-Puḷḷan did seems to have something to do with a Siṁhaḷarāja. The nature of this act is unfortunately not clear as the _______________________________________________
[1] Above, Vol. XVII, pp. 291 ff. ; Ind. Ant., Vol. XXII, pp. 57 ff.
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