The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.202
The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.202
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must also probably be placed before A.D. 643. And it may, with a close approximation to the truth, be placed in A.D. 642, which allows Pulikêśin II. a reign of about thirty-two years. The "destruction" of Vâtâpi undoubtedly denotes more particularly a desecration of the temples there and in the surrounding territory: the family-god of the Pallavas being Śiva, and of the Chalukyas Vishnu, the conquest of the country would naturally be attended by a spoliation of the Vaishnava shrines; and the records of Vikramâditya I. specifically state¹ that the grants to gods and Brâhmaṇs were confiscated by the invading kings.