Pallava : The Pallavas were the first well-known dynasty in the history of South India; they gained prominence in the 4th century after the fall of their overlords, the Śatavāhana dynasty (founded in c.60 BC) ruling Ᾱndhra the region between rivers Godāvari & Krishnā; their languages Prakrit as well as Tamil. The Pallavas were mostly Vaishnavas or Shaivites; the Pallava dynasty was established by Simhavarman I in 275 CE with Kānchipūram as their capital & ended in 897 CE under Aparājitavarman who was defeated by Aditya I of the Cholā Empire & the eastern Chālukyas. The Pallavas became a major power during the reign of Mahendravarman I (571-630) & under Narasimhavarman (ruled 630-688) the Pallava territories included the Chālukya (Telugu) territories occupied by them, & northern parts of Tamil region (covering present districts of North & South Arcot, Madras, Tiruchchirappalli & Thanjavur, & at times even beyond). They are most noted for their patronage of architecture, the finest examples being the Shore Temple in Māmallapūram, & the well-planned city of Kānchipūram which they turned into a city of magnificent temples & sculptures. They established foundations of South Indian architecture. Derived from the Grantha script the Pallava script is still used to write Sanskrit, esp. in Manipravalam. The Saṇgam period classic, Maṇimekalai, attributes its origin to the first Pallava king from a liaison between the daughter of a Nāga king of Maṇipallava named Pilli Valai (Pillivalai) with Cholā king Killivalavan, out of the union was born a prince, who was lost in shipwreck & found with a twig (Pallava) of Tondai (Cephalandra Indica) around his ankle & hence named Tondai Mān. In another version “Pallava” was born from the union of the immortal Ashwatthāmā with a Naga princess also supposedly supported in the 6th verse of the Bāhur plates which states “From Ashwatthāmā was born the king named Pallava”. The Pallavas themselves claimed to descend from Lord Brahma & Ashwatthāmā. Historically, early relations between the Nāgas & Pallavas became well-established before the myth of Pallava’s birth to Ashwatthāmā took root.
... ancient territorial divisions of the region. The Vāyalūr Pillar Inscription of Rajasimha mentions the name Pallava after the first seven mythical ancestors from Brahmā to Aśvatthāmā and before Aśoka's name. It may therefore, be argued that there was a Pallava ruler before Aśoka. Further, Pallava may be taken to be a variant of Palada (a form of the name Pulinda in some versions of Aśoka's edicts) and ...
... brought out by this device in a way which would not be as possible with a two-armed figure. The same truth holds as to the Durga with her eighteen arms slaying the Asuras or the Shivas of the great Pallava creations where the lyrical beauty of the Natarajas is absent, but there is instead a great epical rhythm and grandeur. Art justifies its own means and here it does it with a supreme perfection. And... many centuries and ages of creation, supreme at its best, whether in rare early pre-Asokan, in Asokan or later work of the first heroic age or in the magnificent statues of the cave-cathedrals and Pallava and other southern temples or the noble, accomplished or gracious imaginations of Bengal, Nepal and Java through the after centuries or in the singular skill and delicacy of the bronze work of the ...
... AD)," writes R. C. Majumdar, "then entered Kanchi, which he did not destroy, and donated heaps of gold to the Rajasimheswara temple and other shrines which had been built by Narasimhavarman II" (the Pallava monarch of seventh century). Page 119 of food and medicine to the needy and the sick. The king was the leader of the armed forces, true; but he was also the head of State, the fountain ...
... kilometres south of Madras (now Chennai), in the ancient sea port town of Mamallapuram (or Mahabalipuram), at the mouth of the Palar river, are found rock-hewn sculptures by the talented artists of the Pallava times. "There can be little doubt," writes N. Sastri, "that Mamallapuram was one of the chief entrepots of South India and that from it streamed forth strong cultural influences which shaped the ...
... which is entirely unsuited to that language, but this kind of system or want of system turns the difficulty almost into an impossibility. We hope that in the important works which he promises us on Pallava Sculpture and South Indian Sculptures Mr. Gangoly will remedy this imperfection of detail. The first chapter of the letterpress deals with the legendary origins of South Indian art. It is interesting ...
... or a vital though second-plane prominence in Indian art, and each article is a remarkably just, full, efficient and understanding interpretation of its subject. The frontispiece is a panel from a Pallava temple at Page 590 Mahabalipuram intended to convey at once the essential character and appeal of Indian sculpture by an example which offers no difficulty of understanding or appreciation ...
... 29-32, 334-6 Palakka-Ugrasena, 203 Palibothra (see also Pātaliputra). 1, 3, 244, 386, 596 'Palibothrus', 201, 202 Palirhda/Palinda/Parimda/Pulinda/ Paulinda, 272-3, 274 Pallava, 274 Palmyra, 235, 350, 352 Panchalas, 97, 209 Panchasiddhāntikā, 50, 53, 227. 464, 600 Panchatantra, 561, 564-5 Pandae, 166 Pandaia, 95 Pāndava brothers, 3 ...
... 6th century A.D.) 26. Vakataka Paintings (4th to 6th century A.D.) 27. Early Western Chalukya Paintings (6th to 8th century A.D.) 28. Bhanja Paintings (8th century A.D.) 29. Pallava Paintings (7th to 9th century A.D.) 30. Early Pandyan Paintings (7th to 9th century A.D.) 31. Early Chera Paintings (8th to 9th century A.D.) Page 257 32. Rashtrakuta Paintings ...
... were delighted. But the old woman was absent. When I enquired I was told that she had died. (57) O nce we went to Pannamalai which is the site of an ancient eleventh century Pallava temple. As usual there was a bunch of youngsters hovering round us. They pushed a boy forward and proudly introduced him: "This chap always comes first in school." A few months later when ...
... shooting or audition." I still remember his nice warm smile as he uttered "Friendship." On another occasion we went to Pannamalai, aboul 40 to 42 miles from the Ashram. There is an ancient Pallava temple on the hill. We visited it and saw everything there. Savitri's sister Aditi was with me. From Pannamalai we went to Gingee fort, about 25 miles from there. On the way our motorbike ...
... make a choice, we should keep at the sacrifice of all else, belonged to that period; the second best came afterwards in larger, but still comparatively small nations and kingdoms like those of the Pallavas, Chalukyas, Pandyas, Cholas and Cheras. In comparison she received little from the greater empires that rose and fell within her borders, the Moghul, the Gupta or the Maurya—little indeed except political ...
... mean by "an epic mind"? SRI AUROBINDO: The epic mind is something high, vast and powerful. The Bengali mind is more delicate and graceful. Compare Bengal's painting with the epic statues of the Pallavas in South India. For the same reason the French couldn't write an epic. Their language is too lucid and orderly and graceful for it. For a high substance one must have a noble and elevated mind ...
... our adversary, the after-movements of which we have no power to control. Vasishtha uses soul-force Page 42 against the military violence of Vishwamitra and armies of Huns and Shakas and Pallavas hurl themselves on the aggressor. The very quiescence and passivity of the spiritual man under violence and aggression awakens the tremendous forces of the world to a retributive action; and it may ...
... of them no larger than a modern district. The second best period of India, according to Sri Aurobindo, came afterwards in larger, but still comparatively small, nations and kingdoms like those of Pallavas, Chalukyas, Pandyas, Cholas and Cheras. Again, Sri Aurobindo finds that even when there developed the organisation of nations, kingdoms and empires, it was groupments of smaller nations which ...
... but little nations - the Hebrew tribes, the Greek city states, the small medieval Italian cities, the modest-sized kingdoms of the Indian Heroic Age, the later (and not much bigger) kingdoms of the Pallavas, Chalukyas, Pandyas, Cholas, Cheras - that have given to humanity its most cherished glories. A monstrously forbidding concentration of humanity in capital cities like London, New York, Paris, Tokyo ...
... writers of standing. South of the Vindhya range, along the banks of the Godavari and Cauvery, the Krishna and Tunga-bhadra, many powerful dynasties have left their mark on our land: the Satabahanas, Pallavas, Pandyas, Badami Chalukyas, Cher as of Kerala and others. They are our bridge to the past. But although some of us may have an inaccurate or incomplete idea of India's past and of the integral ...
... of Karma against our adversary, the after-movements of which we have no power to control. Vasishtha uses soul- force against the military violence of Vishwamitra and armies of Huns and Shakas and Pallavas hurl themselves on the aggressor. The very quiescence and passivity of the spiritual man under violence and aggression awakens the tremendous forces of the world to a retributive action; and it may ...
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