Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society July 1933

Nor can we bring ourselves to believe that the defeat of the Pallava family by the Northern Indian monarch (Samudragupta) naturally weakened the royal (Pallava) power and that seems to have been the occasion when the old enemies of the Pallavas attacked them and drove them out of the capita1;83 for if such were the case the help and the presence of Skandavarma IV the nephew and the immediate s [...] desirous of studying the sacred scriptures he went in the company of his preceptor to the city of the Pallavas who later on in the same inscription have been mentioned as the kings of Kanchi 9 and entered all the (Thatikas there 100 whence it is evident that already in Mayurasarrna's time Kanchi was the Pallava capital and a hive of Wtatikas. [...] The interval between these two captures could not be more than zo years at most and it is not surprising therefore if the fact of the first capture of the city was merged into that of its next capture and the remote successor of Kumaravishnu regarded him as the sole capturer of Kanchi especially if we remember that he was the greatest of the Pallava kings the founder of the Pallava empire and [...] APPENDIX B: The story of the disastrous end of the reign of PulikEsi II 113 and the consequent abeyance of the Chalukya sovereignty at Vätapi from about 642 A. C. to 655 A. C. is solely based uoon the supposed identity of the Pulikesi defeated by the Pallava king Narasimhavarrna I with Pulikesi II as well as on the absence of his own records and the non-mention of his name in the one or two other [...] Then the fact that the two officials at the helm of the state—the Finance Minister and the State Treasurer—were Hindus namely Purniah and Krishna Rao shows the magnitude of the confidence he reposed in the honesty of the Hindus.