The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s4.46

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Usually, however, the adherents of rival creeds seem to have lived together in peace and to have enjoyed the impartial protection of the government. The narrative of Hiuen Tsang implies that such was the case in A. D. 640.³ All the later Pallava kings, apparently, were worshippers of Siva, whose emblem, the bull, was adopted as the family crest. Two of the kings were so zealous for religion that they have been included in the list of sixty-three Saiva saints.⁴