The inscription on a panel in the Vaikunta Perumal temple tells us that when the Pallava King Paramesvara Varman II (705 - 710) died without a progeny, a group of scholars of the Ghatika (an assembly of learned people) made a long journey through forests, rivers and dense impenetrable jungles using many means of transport like palanquins, horses, elephants and boats and reached the kingdom of King Harivarma and asked him to come and rule in Kanchipuram. But the King said he had his own kingdom to rule but they could ask one of his four sons instead. The first three refused but the fourth one was willing. He was brought back in a similar long journey and anointed as King Nandivarma Pallavamalla in Kanchipuram. He was 12 years old then.