The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.388.2

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His successor was Mahêndravarman I., who annihilated his "chief enemies" at Puḷalûra: we may safely take these words as denoting the Western Chalukyas of Bâdâmi; and, since Puḷalûra is the name of a village in the Conjeeveram tâluka, the Chalukya army had evidently penetrated very far into the, Pallava dominions, and the asserted repulse of it is probably to be placed in the campaign in which Pulikêśin II. claims to have made the leader of the Pallavas take refuge behind the ramparts of Kâñchî, about A. D. 609. His son was Narasimhavarman I., who conquered Laṅkâ, i.e. Ceylon, and Vâtâpi. The Kûram grant has already mentioned the "destruction" of Vâtâpi by Narasimhavarman I., and has supplied the name of the Western Chalukya king in whose time (at the end of his reign) the invasion took place, viz. Pulikêśin II. And Dr. Hultzsch tells us that the statement about the conquest of Ceylon is confirmed by the Mahâvaṃsa, from which we learn that the Singhalese prince Mânavarman lived at the court of Narasimhavarman I., and helped him to crush his enemy king Vallabha, i.e. Pulikêśin II.;— that the grateful Narasimhavarman twice supplied Mânavarman with an army to invade Ceylon,— and that Mânavarman was successful on the second occasion, and then occupied and reigned over Ceylon. Narasimhavarman's son was Mahêndravarman II. Then there came Paramêśvarapôtavarman I., i.e. Paramêśvaravarman I. of the Kûram grant.³ His son was Narasimhavarman II.