The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.144

c8.144

A.D. 654. After September 24 this year and before July 655, according to the Talamanchi, plates in the Nellore District and the Nērūr grant, began to reign the W. Cāḷukya king Vikramāditya I. He collected forces after the thirteen years' interregnum alluded to above and attacked his Pallava enemy. A long war followed, during which it is claimed for Vikramāditya that he defeated three Pallava kings. These must have been Narasimha I, Mahēndra II and Paramēśvara-Pōtavarman I (V. R. ii, Nellore 483; B. and V. C. i, 189; Ind. Ant. vii, 163. See below s. v., A.D. 674; also Ep. Ind. ix, 200). The date of the Talamanchi grant is July 13, 650. It was issued in the sixth year of Vikramāditya I.