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EASTEKN CAVES.
it is entirely filled up with sand which drifts into it from the shore.
It contains some inscriptions; on the end walls are two copies in
different alphabetical characters of one agreeing generally with that
in the Ganesa temple, but differing in the fifth Sloka, which reads:—
" Atiranachandra, lord of kings, built this place called Atirana-
chandeswara."
On the frieze above the entrance, also in each of the two alpha-
betical characters, is the word—" Atiranachanda-Pallava."
This Atiranachanda-Pallava was in all probability one of the
Pallava kings of Kanchi (Konjiveram); but until some advance has
been made in translating the inscriptions with which the Madras
Presidency abounds we must remain in ignorance of his date. Vina-
yaditya Satyasraya in 694 a.d. claims to have subjugated them.1
Dr. Burnell (Pal, 2nd ed. p. 37 and Plate XII.) ascribes the elder
character to a.d. 700, i.e., the Batha character, but the style of tho
characters in his grants differs from either of Atiranachanda's
inscriptions, and it was only in the eighth or ninth century, ac-
cording to Ellis,2 that the country was conquered by the Cholas
to whom the Pallavas were afterwards tributary.
The cell contains a lingam.
Not far from this is an inscription on a rock, dated " in the
37th year of Tribhuvana-Viradeva," otherwise called Vira Chola
No. 40. Front of Cave at Saliwankuppam, from a Photograph.
1 Ind. Ant. VII. 303 ; also II. 272; III. 152 ; V. 154.
2 Sec also a paper by E. Bumouf in Journal Asiatiquc, 2nd vol. of 1828, p- -
EASTEKN CAVES.
it is entirely filled up with sand which drifts into it from the shore.
It contains some inscriptions; on the end walls are two copies in
different alphabetical characters of one agreeing generally with that
in the Ganesa temple, but differing in the fifth Sloka, which reads:—
" Atiranachandra, lord of kings, built this place called Atirana-
chandeswara."
On the frieze above the entrance, also in each of the two alpha-
betical characters, is the word—" Atiranachanda-Pallava."
This Atiranachanda-Pallava was in all probability one of the
Pallava kings of Kanchi (Konjiveram); but until some advance has
been made in translating the inscriptions with which the Madras
Presidency abounds we must remain in ignorance of his date. Vina-
yaditya Satyasraya in 694 a.d. claims to have subjugated them.1
Dr. Burnell (Pal, 2nd ed. p. 37 and Plate XII.) ascribes the elder
character to a.d. 700, i.e., the Batha character, but the style of tho
characters in his grants differs from either of Atiranachanda's
inscriptions, and it was only in the eighth or ninth century, ac-
cording to Ellis,2 that the country was conquered by the Cholas
to whom the Pallavas were afterwards tributary.
The cell contains a lingam.
Not far from this is an inscription on a rock, dated " in the
37th year of Tribhuvana-Viradeva," otherwise called Vira Chola
No. 40. Front of Cave at Saliwankuppam, from a Photograph.
1 Ind. Ant. VII. 303 ; also II. 272; III. 152 ; V. 154.
2 Sec also a paper by E. Bumouf in Journal Asiatiquc, 2nd vol. of 1828, p- -