DDK HistoryF.p65 - CSIR

325 KADAMBA
MAYUARASMAN
The Kadambas, however, are known to history as a dynasty in the
southern Deccan, and Konkap.” The founder Mayura-is placed,
(with the usual scholarly disputes) in the
Fig. 39. Candravalli tank inscription of the Kadamba
MayuraSarman : Kadambanam Mayurasaramana vinimmian
tatakam dubha Trekuta-Abhira-Pailava-
Paylarika-Sakasthana-Sayindaka-Punata-Mokarika.
Sun and moon between lines 1 -2.
late 4th century A. D. His only known inscription 11 is at Candravalli, west
of Chitaldroog (Mysore State), in Prakrit: “This pond was brought
into being by MayuraSarman of the Kadambas (who had- beaten the
Trekuta, Abhira, Pallava, Pariyatrika, Sakastha (na), Sayindaka, Punala,
Mokari”. (Fig. 39). The reservoir still exists, though the genuineness,
reading and interpretation of this epigraph have been contested. A grant
at Malavalli (Ep. Cam. 7. Sk. 264 also in Prakrit with a brief
terminal Sanskrit benediction) by an unnamed but quite early Kadamba
gives a number of villages to a brahmin for the service of the local god,
Malapalideva. The villages had previously been granted by the eastern
king Sivaskandavarman, of the Pallava line which, though
autochthonous without question, affected a brahmin nomenclature, e.g.
MSnavyasagotra Haritiputra Sivaskandavarman, The monolithic Pallava
sculptures and temples at Mamallapuram (Maha-balipuram) are among
the most notable in India. These Pal-lavas are not to be confused with
the Pahlava (Pehlavi) invaders at Junagadh and the north-west known
to the Ms.