uraga and AlavAy

[Michael Rabe]

This is easily answered...
The Pandya, AND Cholas were traditional regional powers  long long before
the Pallavas extended their realm to include Cholamandala during the reign
of Mahendravarman's father, Simhavisnu in the mid-late 6th c.

MRabe

>>the Gadval plates assertion  that in  c. 674 A.D. the Chalukya
>>  king Vikramaditya I first sacked Kancipuram and then continued
>>southwards as far as Uragapura on the Kaveri.  It seems
>> perfectly reasonable, moreover to equate THAT Uragapura
>>with the one Kalidas mentioned a couple centuries earlier, [but as a
>>city of Pandyas].
>
> Forgot to ask last time,
>
> Uraiyur, supposed to be uragapura of Gadval plates, is intriguing.
> Just one or two decades before, Mahendravarman has excavated
> the cave temple at Tiruchy - the famous Gangadhara panel
> in the Rockfort. Was any area around Kaveri brought under
> Pandyas between say, 640-680 AD? I thought Pallavas
> were reigning supreme in the Chola realm then and
> Pandyas have not risen at all.
>
> V. Iyer
>
>
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