A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c11.32

c11.32

The next stage in the annals of Pallava rule is represented by ten copper-plate charters and a fragment of another charter, all of them in Sanskrit; some of them, however, are suspect. They are all dated in the regnal years of the kings. For absolute chronology, therefore, we depend on a Śaka date in the Jain manuscript *Lokavibhāga*. This work on cosmology was finished on the equivalent of the 25th of August 458 in the twenty-second year of Simhavarman's reign. This date receives confirmation from the Ganga charters and enables us to construct the following genealogical table for the Pallavas.