Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.8

c11.8

I have already mentioned (p. 36) that the Veṅgi dynasty which ruled on the Telugu sea-coast, and the Pallavas of the Tamiḷ coast near what is now Madras, were probably of the same family. For many reasons, which would take too much space to give here, it appears to me that the territory of these kings extending from the borders of Orissa down to near Madras constituted the three Kaliṅgas, mention of which often occurs, and except Conjeveram be allowed to be one, it seems impossible to make up the number; for Veṅgi proper was the most northern, and between these (according to Hiouen Thsang) was only one kingdom which must answer to the Nellore country.