Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c17.21

c17.21

Pulakesi II. appears undoubtedly to have been the greatest prince of this dynasty, and his fame reached even foreign countries. He is represented in an Arabic work to have sent an embassy to Chosroes II., king of Persia, who reigned from A.D. 591 to A.D. 628, in the thirty-sixth year of that prince's reign, and must have received one from him, either before or after.¹⁸ During his reign the power of the Châlukyas was established over a very large extent of country. His younger brother Vishṇuvardhana, otherwise called Vishamasiddhi, seems to have for some time been appointed to rule over the Sâtârâ and Paṇḍharpur districts, since a copper-plate inscription of his found at Sâtârâ records the grant of a village situated on the southern bank of the Bhîmâ.¹⁹ Vishṇuvardhana afterwards obtained the province of Vengî between the lower Kṛishṇâ and the Godâvarî, where he founded another flourishing branch of the Châlukya dynasty.