The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c6.s4.6

c6.s4.6

The reigns of these kings seem to have been pretty well filled up with wars with their neighbours, and, if we believe the records left us, their expeditions took them as far afield as Nepāl, Assam and Ceylon, where they are said to have performed great deeds, but it is likely that most of this is extravagant myth, born in the brain of the sycophantic composers of these panegyrics. The excessive exaggeration in these accounts is apparent on the face of them, for, in the case of nearly every ruler, we read of wars of extermination of his enemies, only to read again of the same thing being necessary at the hands of his successor. Their enemies must have possessed amazing vitality to have recovered so rapidly.