The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.19

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During the early part of that century the struggle for predominance in Southern India was waged between the Chalukyas of the Deccan and the Pallavas of Kānchī, the Cholas not counting for much. But the severe defeat suffered by the Pallavas at the hands of the Chalukya king, Vikramāditya, in 740, weakened the power of the kingdom of Kānchī, and gave the Cholas, who had been reduced to insignificance by the pressure of the Pallavas on the north and the Pāndyas on the south, an opportunity of recovering their position. We hear of a Chola Rāja named Vijayālaya, who came to the throne about the middle of the ninth century, and reigned for thirty-four years. His son Āditya (*c.* A. D. 880–907) conquered Aparājita Pallava, and so finally put an end to the Pallava supremacy.