The Origin of Saivism and its History in the Tamil Land

The Puranas The nether-world is divided into seven regions by the Puranas of which the first four were occupied by the Daityas and the Danavas and the rest by the Nagar. [...] For the mouth of the Indus the mouth of the Ganges Assam the valley of the Narmada Ceylon and further South have been called Patala no* and then. [...] The destruction of Khandava foreste and the expulsion of the natives of the place preceded the foundation of the glorious city of Indraprastha on the spot by the Pandava brothers. [...] The Puranas speak of the Kilakila kings before Vindhyasakti the first Vakatak a.' We do not know if we have to look for the Kalakeyas of the Mahabharata in the Kilakilas and the Kalatoyakas of the early fourth century..u. [...] The Alupas and the Sendrakas It we take the history of the Deccan a few centuries later we find several Naga dynasties like the Alupas 2 the Sendrakas3 and the Sindas.4 The Alupas or Aluvas (kings ?) were one of the feudatories of the Western Chdlukyas some of whose inscritions mention them as such.