The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.77

c8.77

After the departure from Kāñchi of Samudragupta, the Pallava king induced the Kadamba chief of Baṇavāśi to form a defensive alliance with him against attacks from the north. Although actually the power of the Pallava lost strength after the Gupta raid and the Kadamba family became proportionally stronger, the latter acknowledged the Pallava sovereign as their political superior. Baṇavāśi had been captured from the Āndhra Chūṭu-Sātakarṇis. The Pallava king Viṣṇugopa I crowned the Kadamba Mayūraśarma about A.D. 340.]