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	THE IRANIAN: Pallava empire of Dravidia, Samar Abbas
		This paper reveals the ancient Pallava Dynasty of Dravidia to be of the Iranic race, and as constituting a branch of the Pahlavas, Parthavas or Parthians of Persia.
		Pallava administration was based on the Maurya pattern, which was in turn based on that of the Achaemenid Empire.
		The Pallavas are believed to be identical with the Kurumbas, of whom the Kurumbar of the Tamil country and the Kurubas of the Kanarese districts and of the Mysore State may be taken as the living representatives.
	www.iranian.com /History/2003/May/Pallava (6382 words)

	The Deccan Plateau: Pallavas of Kanchi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pallavas were a prominent dynasty that ruled South India for nearly 500 years and have left a permanent mark in the field of art and architecture.
		Pallavas captured Badami which seems to have been under their siege for thirteen years.
		Pallava Art & Architecture -- Article on the art and architecture of South India during the rule of the Pallava kings.
	www.kamat.com /kalranga/deccan/pallavas.htm (714 words)

	Pallava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bodhidharma, the founder of the Chan school of Buddhism in China, was a prince of the Pallava dynasty, a contemporary of Skandavarman IV and Nandivarman I, and the son of Simhavarman II.
		Pallavas later extended their sway up to Northern Tamil region and established a flourishing empire.
		The Kadambas had their aggressions and even the headquarters of the Pallavas was occupied by them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pallava (1434 words)

	c. South India. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Pallava period, for instance, saw a greater assimilation by the elite of Aryan ideals, while popular culture reasserted Tamil ideas and values—and the tension between these developments helped to shape a distinct and new Tamil culture.
		The Pallava warrior dynasty ruled from its base at Kanchi (near Madras) and exercised hegemony over the Deccan while disputing throughout this period with the Chalukyas and others.
		The Pallava Narasimhavarman II built in stone and brick the Shore temple at Mamalla, and the central shrine of the Kailasa temple at Kanchi, completed by his son.
	www.bartleby.com /67/326.html (898 words)

	Pallava Granites Ltd. - Building Material, Granite Countertops, Granite & Other Natural Stones
		Pallava is one among the top five Indian granite exporters, exporting quality granite products which include dimensional blocks, monuments/ memorials, slabs, tiles, vanity tops, counter tops & columns with special finishes and intricate workmanship - all at its own factories.
		Pallava is engaged in quarrying operations at their own quarries in all four states of Southern India with major activities in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and also in Orissa.
		Pallava is the ultimate choice for all those who are driven by the passion to possess premium granite.
	www.worldstonex.com /en/SF/Pallava/AboutUs.asp (509 words)

	The Deccan Plateau: Pallava Art and Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The long period of the Pallava rule represents both rock-cut architecture and early constructed stone temples.
		Political conflict of Pallavas with Chalukyas, Cholas and Pandyas were no obstacle to cultural growth.
		The Pallavas -- Article on the art and architecture of the prominent Pallava dynasty that rules South India from 4th to 9th centuries CE.
	www.kamat.com /kalranga/deccan/pallava_arts.htm (590 words)

	South Asia–South, 500–1000 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is thought that the use of stone funerary monuments in the south delayed the use of stone for temple architecture; prior to the Pallava period, perishable materials were apparently used.
		The Pandava Rathas, five monolithic temples that seem to replicate brick and wood structures common to the period, are carved from an outcrop of stone, and provide the earliest examples of dravida or southern-style architecture.
		Pallava architecture becomes increasingly ornate, as is typical of all Hindu temple architecture from 500 onward; this is seen in the Shore Temple (at Mamallapuram) and Kailashanatha Temple (at Kanchipuram) in the eighth century.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/06/sss/ht06sss.htm (1087 words)

	THE PALLAVAS
		During the 5th century, the Pallavas expanded very fast and even crossed river Krishna andoccupied Bellary, Sorth and South Arcot, Trichirapalli, Chengalpet and part of Tanjoretoo.
		He came with a huge army and defeated Mahendravarman at Pullalur in 620 A.D. It was a great insult to the pallavas and Mahendravarman in particular.
		The Pallava dynasty was not that peak as under this ruler ever.
	prabhu.50g.com /southind/pallava/south_pallavak.html (483 words)

	South Indian Bronzes - Chola Bronzes - Pallava - Nayak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These traditions of the early period in the realm of art were continued by the Pallavas who held hegemony over parts of the southern Andhradesa and the whole of the Tondaimandalam and even the region up to the Kaveri in the south.
		A few scholars tend to believe that the art of bronze casting was either unknown to the Pallavas or at least had not attained great heights under them and that for all practical purposes the history of the art of bronzes in Tamil Nad begins with the Colas.
		This is the period which witnessed the highest water mark in the art of bronze casting, and in the light of recent and penetrating studies it is possible to discern different phases in sequence in the development of the art.
	www.tamilnation.org /culture/cholabronze.htm (2673 words)

	pallavas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Pallavas are known by their ruler Sinhavisnu who ruled in the last quarter of the 6th century AD whose domain is said to have existed between the Krishna and Cauveri.His son and successor Mahendravarman was a versatile genius who unfortunately lost northern parts of his dominion to the Chalukya king, Pulakesin II.
		The Pallava power reached its glorious heights during the reign of Narasimhavarman II (695 -722 AD) who is well known for his architectural achievements.He buuilt many temples and art and literature flourished in his time.
		However after his death, the Pallava empire began to decline and in course of time they were reduced to a mere local tribal power.
	members.tripod.com /masad/pallavas.html (153 words)

	History of Iran: India's Parthian Colony
		Revealing the ancient Pallava Dynasty of Dravidia to be of the Iranic race, and as constituting a branch of the Pahlavas, Parthavas or Parthians of Persia.
		The dress of the Pallavas is cleary Parthian.
		the Pallava territory) was bounded on the north by the Tirupati and Kālahasti mountains; on the south by the river Pālār; and on the west by the Ghauts (Taylor's Catalogue, Vol.III, p.29).
	www.iranchamber.com /history/articles/india_parthian_colony1.php (4438 words)

	Another surprise in Mamallapuram
		Subsequently, the Pallava kings converted it into a granite temple in the 8th and 9th century A.D., which too fell to tidal waves or a tsunami.
		Other Pallava age artefacts unearthed include carved granite blocks from the collapsed temple vimana, a bronze lamp with a carving of a cock (the vehicle of Muruga or Subrahmanya), and roofing tiles.
		The monuments at Mamallapuram were built by the Pallava kings, whose reign began in the 4th century A.D. Kancheepuram, situated about 55 km away, was their capital, and Mamallapuram, their port.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2222/stories/20051104005113000.htm (1857 words)

	Government Museum Chennai
		This Madhava Mahadhiraja is stated to have been installed on the throne, by the Pallava King Skandavarma Maharaja and Aryavarman, father of Madhava, was installed on the throne, by Simhavarma Maharaja, lord of the Pallava family.
		It is thus indicated that during the time of Sivaskandavarman, the Pallava kingdom was composed of Tondaimandalam and the Telugu country as far north as the Krishna river.
		This Maravarman is stated to have conquered the Cholas, the Pallavas and the Keralas.
	www.chennaimuseum.org /draft/gallery/01/07/copper2.htm (664 words)

	What a Pallava \| Travel \| The Guardian
		The shrine at the heart of the temple was built by the great Pallava kings who ruled over much of southern India in the 7th century AD, and around us superb mithuna couples - beautiful divine lovers - were entangled amorously around the jambs of the doorway.
		The Pallava kings who made Kanchipuram their capital, and who filled their city with a staggering richness of huge temples, were one of a number of south India dynasties who became rich and powerful from their control of the spice trade and the wider maritime world this opened up.
		From their great port of Mamallapuram (previously known as Mahabalipuram), the Pallavas sent naval expeditions to south-east Asia, where inscriptions survive witnessing the scale of this first great Indian diaspora.
	travel.guardian.co.uk /saturdaysection/story/0,,1450041,00.html (2254 words)

	The Shore Temple in Mamallapuram presented in Travelling section
		The five-storied Sore Temple on the sea beach was built by the Pallava King Raja Singha at the end of seventh century in pure dravidian sculpture.
		The Pallavas of Kanchi were the most important dynasty to emerge from the Tamil country after the decline of the north Indian Gupta Empire.
		The Pallavas were prosperous rulers with a large portion of their wealth derived from land.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/the_shore_temple_in_mamallapuram (453 words)

	Temples of Tamilnadu -I
		This 8th century Pallava temple dedicated to Lord Shiva is situated in the traditional part of Madras at Mylapore.
		Unlike the Pallava constructions, it is built of hard grey stone; its sculpted pyramidal roof is an early form of the gopuras used extensively by the Pandyas.
		On the southern face of the rock, are several beautifully carved, rock-cut cave temples, of the Pallava period.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/5180/temple3.html (4678 words)

	Pallava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE PALLAVAS The copper plate of mid 4th century,talked about the Pallava grant in Andhra by Siva...
		Pallava dynasty Hereditary Hindu rulers who dominated southeastern India between the 4th and 9th centuries.
		...Pallava Dynasty early 4th-century to late 9th-century southern Indian line of rulers whose members originated as indigenous subordinates of the Sandamacr...The Ambassador Pallava is located close to the business distinct, in the heart of Chennai.
	pallava.realitsen.info (1169 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Mamallapuram, July 12: The mystique of the missing “pagodas” was enough to draw tourists to this seat of the ancient Pallava kings.
		The latest find, a temple to Subrahmanya (the local name for Kartik), comes three to four months after the ASI stumbled on the remains of another Pallava shrine near the Shore temple.
		The importance of the find is that the Pallavas were not known, so far, to have built temples to Subrahmanya.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050713/asp/nation/story_4983797.asp (478 words)

	Origin of Pallava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word Pallava (which in Sanskrit means twig or branch) is a translation of Tamil word Tondaiyar and Tondaman and this finds confirmation in some of the copper plate charters which do bring in 'tender twigs' (=pallavams) of some kind in connection with the eponymous name Pallava'.
		According to Dr K. Jayswal, the Pallavas were a branch or twig (Sanskrit pallava) of the Brahmana royal dynasty of Vakatakas of the North.
		Rayakota copper plates of the Pallavas state that a Brahmin Ashvathama was the founder of the Pallava race.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Origin_of_Pallava (4256 words)

	Dr.Gift Siromoney's Home Page
		The Kailasanatha temple of Kanchipuram built by the famous Pallava king Rajasimha around 700 A.D. has patches of paintings in the small shrines which surround the courtyard of the main shrine.
		However, in the Pallava period, there is only one other known example: the famous Panamalai painting.
		The unusual rosetted arm-band found on both painting and sculptures is striking confirmation that the painting belongs to the Rajasimha period.
	www.cmi.ac.in /gift_siromoney/Archeaology/arch_pallavapaintings.htm (765 words)

	I would like to start out by introducing my background and what inspired me to choose Khmer as a language to do ...
		However, it appears that Pallava may have been the predominant source of the actual script that is used today.
		As is evidenced in Appendix 1, Khmer is the direct descendant of the Pallava language.
		The Pallava language is, for all intensive purposes the mother of written Khmer.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/khmer.html (2590 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : The tell-tale Pallava stamp
		The majestic monuments at Mamallapuram including the Shore Temple and the long bas-relief structures were built during the 7th and 8th century by the Pallava kings.
		A lion in sandstone, proving that the temple belonged to the Pallava period.
		The Pallavas ruled from 3rd to 9th century with their capital at Kancheepuram.
	www.hindu.com /2005/04/29/stories/2005042904652000.htm (695 words)

	Dr.Gift Siromoney's Home Page
		The vigour and the freshness in the South Indian art of the Pallavas of the seventh and eighth centuries A.D. have been noted by several scholars and so have been the stereotyped forms of deities of the Vijayanagar period of the sixteenth century.
		It is generally held that the peak of artistic excellence was reached during the reign of the Imperial Cholas around 1000 A.D. The iconographic portions of the texts indicate the standard postures, gestures and weapons associated with different forms of deities of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain pantheons.
		On the other hand, the Pallava ideal of a long nose could have been inspired by the face of a particular Pallava queen who had an unusually long nose and a pretty face, and this later went out of fashion.
	www.cmi.ac.in /gift/Iconometry/icon_pallavasculpture.htm (4349 words)

	mahendra varma pallava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1) mahendra varma pallava ruled during 600 ad and was one of the famous pallava kings.
		Of course, thirunAvukkarasar was subjected to quite a torture before the king could realize the greatness of Lord shiva.* 3) He did write works in sanskrit (pallavas did not do much for the tamil language, but one of the last pallavas was great lover of tamil and died hearing a kalambagam sung on him).
		It was a great center of learning during pallava dynasty (which I think lasted till the advent of later chozhas).
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /archives/advaita-l/1999-June/011053.html (411 words)

	Heritage - A Traveller’s Haunt,mahabalipuram,indian culture,Pallava sculptors, indian tour packages,World ...
		World famous for its shore temple, Mahabalipuram was the second capital and a sea port of the Pallava kings of Kanchipuram-the first Tamil dynasty of any real consequence to emerge after the fall of the Gupta empire.
		The early Pallava kings were followers of the Jain religion but Mahendra Varman I adopted Shaivism.
		The Pallava sculptors reached their creative crescendo when the concept of Arjuna’s Penance took shape in their minds.
	www.indiaprofile.com /heritage/mahabalipuram.htm (599 words)

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