Nriputungavarman

{{short description|Pallava King}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}

{{Use Indian English|date=August 2020}}

{{Infobox royalty

| succession = Pallava King

| reign = {{circa|869|880 CE}}

| predecessor = Nandivarman III

| successor = Aparajitavarman

| spouse = Viramahadevi
Kadavanmadevi

| dynasty = Pallava

| father = Nandivarman III

| mother = Shankha

}}

{{Pallava}}

Nriputungavarman{{cite web |title=History Of Kongu |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.119817|year=1986}}{{cite web |url=https://puratattva.in/2011/07/20/the-pallavas-part-3-493|title=The Pallavas – Part 3 – Indian History and Architecture}} ({{floruit|{{circa|869–880 CE}}}}) was a king of the Pallava dynasty. Nriputungavarman was the younger son of Nandivarman III and his wife, the Rashtrakuta princess Shankha.{{cite journal |jstor = 25189883|title = Velurpalaiyam Plates of Nandivarman III|journal = Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|pages = 521–524|last1 = Venkayya|first1 = V.|year = 1911|doi = 10.1017/S0035869X00041617}} Nrpatungavarman{{cite book |title=The Body of God: An Emperor's Palace for Krishna in Eighth-Century Kanchipuram |date=2008 |publisher=D Dennis Hudson |isbn=9780195369229 |edition=Oxford University Press, USA}} had at least two queens, Viramahadevi{{cite book |last1=Anjali Verma |title=Women and society in early medieval India : re-interpreting epigraphs |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge India |isbn=978-0429448010}} and Kadavanmadevi, as both appear in his inscriptions as donors. Under his reign, the rock-cut shrine at Namakkal was sculpt and a Vishnu temple in Ukkal was commissioned for his queen.{{cite web |title=Copper Plates |url=https://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D:A_hand_book_of_Tamil_Nadu.pdf/118}}

A copper plate inscription dating to the eighth year of the reign of Nriputunga Varman was unearthed in Bahour in 1879. The inscription in both Sanskrit and Tamil describes a grant of income from three villages to a seat of learning at Bahour.{{cite news |author=Chithra Madhavan |title=Bahur, seat of learning |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/bahur-seat-of-learning/article5809690.ece |work=The Hindu |date=19 May 2016 |access-date=2020-01-14 }}{{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/details/EpigraphiaIndicaVol4/page/n227 |title=Two Tamil Inscriptions at Ambur | last =Hultzsch | first =E. |author-link=E. Hultzsch | journal =Epigraphia Indica | volume =IV | issue =23 | pages =180–183 |year =1896 |access-date=2020-01-14 }}