Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s6.3

c8.s6.3

According to tradition, their progenitor, descended from Śālivāhana who ruled at Pratishṭhāna (Paithan on the Gōdāvari), was a Mukunti Pallava, who introduced Brāhmans into the South in the third century. A principal seat of the Pallavas was Vengi (between the Krishnā and Gōdāvari in the east), but Kānchī (Conjeeveram, near Madras) was their chief capital. It was so in the third century when Mayūra-śarmma, the Kadamba student, went there (Sk 176), and both are mentioned in the Samudra Gupta inscription of the fourth century. The Pallavas may have ousted the Mahāvalis or Bāṇas from the coast regions, and driven them eastwards inland. The ancient inscriptions now at Mahābalipur are Pallava.