Pallava Architecture, Part I (MASI 17) c2.24

c2.24

The late Mr. Venkayya commenting on this defeat of the Pallavas says: ‘The procedure adopted by Vikramāditya after the capture of the Pallava capital shows that the frequent wars waged in India by ancient kings against one another did not much affect the country or the peaceful inhabitants. In fact, the atrocities of later Indian warfare were unknown in early times. It is said of Vikramāditya that though he took Kāñchīpuram, he did not destroy it and that, ‘having made the twice-born, the distressed and the helpless rejoice by continual gifts, he acquired great merit by granting heaps of gold to the Kailāsanātha and other temples in the city.’