[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c19.s2.16 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.16 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.16 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.16) Finally, mention must be made of two works of the time of Pallava Nandivarman III. The anonymous \*Nandikkalambakam\*, that has come down with many interpolations, is a quasi-historical poem of about eighty stanzas dealing, in various metres, with events of the reign of the last great Pallava monarch. The \*Bhāratam\* of Perundēvanār of which only a small part has survived raises questions which cannot now be satisfactorily answered. The extant portions include the whole of the Udyoga and Bhishma \*parvas\*, and part of the Droṇa \*parva\*,—to the battle on the thirteenth day. The work consists of \*veṇbās\* interspersed with connecting prose passages, and thus attains the form of a \*Campū\*. But it has been doubted if the poetry and prose are from the same pen, and the problem is complicated by the fact that the \*Bhāratam\* was rendered into Tamil by a Perundēvanār in the Śangam Age. The present work, poetry and prose taken together, is a straightforward and simple narrative of the main story not devoid of eloquence and charm. It may well be that the entire work was written by a single author in the ninth century, his poetry conforming to a long-established tradition regarding its diction, while his prose was modelled on the style of the learned commentaries, the only prose then known. - [Previous: c19.s2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.15) - [Next: c19.s2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.17) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Nāṭyaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.natyasastra) — Bharata, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.16) · Pramāṇa