History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c12.41

c12.41

Paramēśvaravarman I (circa 600 to 680).—With the accession of Paramēśvaravarman I we once again find ourselves in very stirring times. Invasions and counter-invasions of the Pallavas and the Chālukyas become once more the order of the day. His great Chālukyan contemporary was Vikramāditya I who, according to the Gadval plates,³ conquered Kāñchi, defeated Īśvarapōtarāja and destroyed the Mahāmalla family. This grant also gives the very important particular that at the time of the southern invasion, Vikramāditya I was encamped at Uragapura⁴ on the southern bank of the Kavēri. These plates furnish the details of date, i.e. the year both of the reign and of the Śaka era. The actual date of the grant as given in the record is the full-moon *tithi* of *Vaiśākha* in the twentieth year of the reign, which was current after 596 Śaka years had passed. According to Dr. Fleet the equivalent may be taken as Tuesday, 25th April, A.D. 674, which fully confirms the correctness of other dates obtained for the reign by Prof. Kielhorn.