The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.25

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But his prosperity was not destined to last much longer. In A. D. 642, the long-continued war, which, since the year 609, had been generally disastrous to the Pallavas of Kāñchī, took a new turn, and brought ruin and death upon Pulakēsin. The Pallava king, Narasimhavarman, captured and plundered his capital, and presumably put him to death. Then for thirteen years the Chalukya power, which Pulakēsin had laboured so hard to exalt, remained in abeyance; while the Pallavas dominated Southern India.