The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.108

c8.108

[A.D. c. 550. Approximate date for accession of the early Chālukya king in the Dekhan, Pulakeśin I. His grandfather Jayasimha, a chief of the Mānavya-gōtra claiming descent from Hārītī, had acquired great power half a century earlier in the country about Bijapūr. His success was mainly due to the fact that the persistent inroads of Huns and Śakas into the Dekhan had broken up the Gupta Empire. The last Gupta king Bhānugupta became, in the early sixth century A. D. a tributary of the Hun leaders. Pulakēśin's original capital was Paithān. He afterwards seized Bādāmi, or Vātāpi, and the surrounding country from the Kadamba king. Harivarma (A.D. 537 to 550). Pulakēśin married Durlabha-dēvī. He was also called ‘Raṇavikrama’.]