Pallava Architecture, Part I (MASI 17) c2.10

c2.10

The later Pallava records are written in Sanskrit and some of them give a genealogy of the earlier generations of the Pallava family, but they are mostly very confusing and difficult to understand. One great difficulty about fixing the dates of these records is, that so many Pallava princes had not only the same name but also the same epithets, which makes it almost impossible to know exactly which prince is referred to in the inscriptions. The age when the kings who issued the Sanskrit charters flourished is not known. But approximately, they may be assigned to about the 5th century and continued down to almost the beginning of the 7th century A. D.