The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.74

c8.74

A.D. 336. [He was succeeded in this year by his son, Samudragupta, who raised large forces and waged many wars. After defeating, according to his panegyrist (e.g. the Allahabad pillar inscription—Ep. Ind. xv, 246) nine local kings he warred successfully against eleven kings of the Gangetic plain. Then he seized southern Kōsala and the valley of the Mahānadi; defeated the King of Kalinga; took Mahēndragiri in Ganjam, the Kolēr Lake country and Piṭhāpur north of the Godāvari; crossed that river and seized Vengi, now a Pallava centre governed by a Viceroy named Hastivarma. Then he defeated the Pallava king himself, Vishṇugōpa I of Kāñchi, captured him and his city and restored him to his throne. Shortly after this his attention was called to the west and about A.D. 340 he reduced a chief on the Malabar coast. Samudragupta reigned till about A.D. 380.