Pallava Architecture, Part I (MASI 17) c2.25

c2.25

This crushing defeat of the Pallavas by the Chālukyas seems to have dealt the death blow to the sovereignty of the former. Thus the history of the Pallavas emphasises the oft-repeated lesson of history that, when internal dissensions set in, the decline and disappearance of a dynasty are only a matter of time. Strangely enough, their rivals, the Western Chālukyas also ceased to be the ruling power in the west about the same time as Pallava ascendancy came to an end in the south.