The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s4.14

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From the second half of the sixth century, when Chalukya history begins, until the overthrow of the Chalukya power by the Rāshtrakūtas, in A. D. 753, the Pallavas and Chalukyas, who regarded each other as 'enemies by nature', remained constantly in touch and generally at war, each power striving to acquire for itself the mastery of the South. During this period of about two centuries the Pallava royal genealogy for nine reigns, beginning with Simhavishnu (acc. *c.* A. D. 575,) is well ascertained.¹ Simhavishnu claims to have inflicted defeats on the kings of Ceylon and the three Tamil states.