History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s2.30

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180. Ś i v a - S k a n d a v a r m a n, as the Crown Prince, rather as 'the junior governor' (Yuvamahārāja Bhāradāyasagotto Pallavānam Śiva-Skamda-vammo—E.I., VI., 86) issued a charter of land-grant in the A n d h r ā-p a t h a from his seat at Kāñchīpura addressed to the officer at Dhānyakaṭaka, in the 10th year (of his father's reign). It shows that the Pallava dominion in the second generation had grown, at the cost of the Tamil states, to a magnitude justifying the ambition of Śiva-Skandavarman. The Dharma-mahārājādhirāj Śiva-Skandavarman describes his father³ as Mahārāja Bappa-svāmin (sāmi), which shows that his father started life as a feudatory and that Śiva-Skandavarman was the first dynast to adopt the full royal title. His father had reigned for 10 years or more, the grant of the Yuvamahārāja Śiva-Skandavarman being dated in the 10th year. It seems that his father was a feudatory of the Nāgas, and succeeded to the settled and well-organized government of the Ikshvākus which is evident from these two Prakrit copperplates of his son and the Ikshvāku records.