A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c11.41

c11.41

The charters on which this table is based only record grants, so that the political history of the Pallavas from 325-500 is almost a blank. All we can deduce, therefore, is that Vishnugopa, the opponent of Samudragupta, was a contemporary and perhaps brother of Kumāravishnu I, while Yuvamahārāja Vishnugopavarman I probably did not live to reign as king, and Simhavarman II must have had a very prosperous reign as he is known to have issued a large number of grants; but what happened after his death is by no means clear. Simhavarman, the father of Simhavishnu, who started the best-known line of Pallava rulers towards the end of the sixth century A.D., finds no place in this genealogy and thus leaves another gap in the line of succession which cannot be bridged.