History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s2.12
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c17.s2.12
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⁴ There was a family of the Bṛihat-phalāyanas (E.I., VI, 315) in the Kṛishṇā District who were probably feudatories to the Ikshvākus or to the early Pallavas. We do not find any trace of the family of Jayavarman Bṛihat-phalāyana before or after him. The letters of his copperplates agree with the letters on the plate of Śiva Skanda-varman, the Pallava Yuvarāja (E.I., VI, 84). Does Bṛihat-Phala stand for the Bṛihat-Bāṇa, the well-known Southern family, phala being the arrowhead (*bāṇa*)? The Bṛihat-Bāṇas were feudatories to the Pallavas in the time of Mayūraśarman (E.I., VIII, 32). Probably both *bāṇa* and *phala* were translations of some Tamil word.