History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c12.19

c12.19

¹ ‘It is certainly astonishing that in the inscriptions of the Pallavas and other Southern dynasties no reference whatever is made to the relations-which in those days must have existed between Coromandel and the Far East. The explanation probably is that those relations, of which the accounts of the Chinese pilgrims have left us such a valuable record were of a perfectly peaceful nature. Suppose the powerful Pallava princes of Kāñchīpura had equipped armadas and carried their arms to the remote shares of Campā and Java, may we not assume that their conquests on the far side of the ocean would have been extolled in their praçastis with no less effusion than we find lavished on their victories over the Chalukyas?’—J. Ph. Vogel—The Yupa Inscriptions of King Mulavarman.