A PALLAVA INSCRIPTION FROM AMARAVATl. 
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Asvatthaman, married to the apsaras Madani. 
I 
Pallava. 
Verse 8 gives a popular etymology of the name Pallava. 
Then there follow the names of seven Pallava kings : — 
1. Mahendravarman, son of Pallava. 
2. Simhavarman I, son of 1. 
3. Arkavarman, son of 2. 
4. Ugravarman. 
6. Nandivarman, son of 5, Srisimhavishnu. 
7. Simhavarman IT. 
The inscription contains no information about the 
relationship which existed between 3 and 4, 4 and 5, 6 and 7. 
Neither does the genealogy agree with the lists derived by 
Mr. Foulkes ^ and Mr. Fleet ^ from other Pallava inscriptions, 
although similar names of kings occur in them. For these 
reasons great care should be taken in using the above list for 
historical purposes. 
From the incomplete prose passage at the end of the 
inscription we learn that, on his return from an expedition to 
the north, Simhavarman II came to a place sacred to Buddha, 
which was called Dhdnyaghata (line 38) or Dlianyaghatalta 
(line 47). The lost part of the pillar must have recorded a 
donation which the king made to Buddha. 
Dhanyaghata or Dhdnyaghataha is evidently identical with 
Dhaayakata or Dhdnyahataka, " corn-town," the well-known 
old name of Amaravati. The use of gha instead of ka * can 
perhaps be explained by the Tamil habit of pronouncing any 
guttural between two vowels like the North-Grerman g in 
" wagen." 
2 Ind. Ant., Vol. VIII, p. 167, 273. Salem Manual, Vol. II, p. 349. 
^ Kanarese Dynasties, p. 16. 
* Compare pridhivi for prithivi, uhhAija for updya, and pardhhara for 
pardpara, in the Pallava inscriptions of Dharmaraja's Eatha at Seven 
Pagodas. 
