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Assess the achievements of the Pallavas in administration and art.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Regional States during Gupta Era

Between the late sixth and mid-eighth centuries, the Pallava dynasty of Kanchipuram accumulated its administrative and artistic achievements not as a single dynastic programme but ruler by ruler, each king adding a distinct institutional or architectural layer onto what his predecessor had built. Assessing this record therefore works best chronologically, tracing what each significant ruler…

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  • Simhavishnu: Refounding the Kingdom (c. 575–600 CE)
  • Mahendravarman I (600–630 CE): The Architect-King and First Institution-Builder
  • Narasimhavarman I Mahamalla (630–668 CE): Military Zenith and the Rathas
  • Narasimhavarman II Rajasimha (700–728 CE): Structural Temples and Administrative Consolidation
  • Nandivarman II Pallavamalla (731–796 CE): Late Consolidation
  • Assessing the Balance Sheet

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