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Examine the course of Pallava-Chalukya conflicts between the sixth and eighth century CE.

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  • Regional States during Gupta Era

To "examine the course" of the Pallava-Chalukya conflicts is to ask not merely what happened but how the balance of power moved — and the two centuries between Simhavishnu's founding of the Imperial Pallava line and Dantidurga's founding of the Rashtrakuta empire fall into four distinct phases, each of which left the regional power equation…

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  • Phase One: Consolidation and First Contact (Late 6th–Early 7th Century)
  • Phase Two: Mutual Sacking and the Swing of Fortune (Mid-to-Late 7th Century)
  • Phase Three: Renewed Aggression and Pallava Decline (Early–Mid 8th Century)
  • Phase Four: Displacement by the Rashtrakutas (Mid-8th Century)
  • How the Phases Together Shifted the Regional Balance

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