Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t2.8
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t2.8
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As regards the name ‘Pallava’, Mr. Kittel (“*Nāgavarma*”, p. xxi. *n.*) connects it with pŏllava and Tel. pallĕ=a rustic. The Paḷḷis (a cognate Tamiḷ caste) are now very degraded, but they may not have been so always. The Cōḷas and Pāṇḍiyas were merely Kaḷḷar or ‘Robbers’, a low caste at the present time.
The ‘Palakkaḍa’ of the first of these inscriptions must be the modern Pulicat. In the 11th century the Pallava