Introduction
Pallava king credited with founding Mamallapuram and building its rock-cut monuments; defeated the Chalukya king Pulakeshin II
Family
- Father: Mahendravarman I
Textual Notes
Note: Chronological note: the Pallava dynasty ruled from Kanchipuram between roughly the late 6th and mid-7th century CE, several centuries after the classical Sangam corpus (Kapilar, the Kadai Ezhu Vallalgal, the core Silappatikaram/Manimekalai setting). This family is grouped in the same project as a matter of scope (Tamil dynastic history generally) but is post-Sangam, not part of the same literary/historical period as the other families here.
This article records a figure from Sangam-era and early medieval Tamil literature and dynastic tradition — the Chera, Chola, Pandya and Pallava royal lines, the legendary Kadai Ezhu Vallalgal patrons, and the Silappatikaram/Manimekalai epic cycle. Chronology and genealogy in this corpus are drawn from praise-poetry and literary narrative rather than administrative record, and are recorded here as attested textual tradition rather than settled history; the Pallava kings in particular postdate the classical Sangam corpus by several centuries, as noted in their individual entries.