Pallava Architecture, Part I (MASI 17) c2.5

c2.5

THE origin of the Pallava dynasty and that of their name has been a subject for controversy for some years, and the attempts made to throw light on it have not made the mystery less impenetrable. That the Pallavas became a great power in Southern India in the sixth and seventh centuries, and that they contributed a great deal to the growth first of Buddhism and then of Hinduism, and to South Indian architecture, sculpture and painting, are well known. But we have yet to find out who they were and whence they came.