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Pallava meaning
a South Indian dynasty which ruled from 275 CE - 897 CE. | An ancient writing system used to write several languages of India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.
Example sentences (8)
S. Balaji, a government employee and president of Uthirameur Varalaru Ayvu Maiyam and his team scouts villages around Uthiramerur in search of old statues and stone inscriptions belonging to Pallava and Chola period.
History of Humanity: From the seventh century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. by Sigfried J. de Laet p.395 and by the 5th century, stone inscriptions written in Pallava scripts were found in Java and Borneo.
In south India from the 7th century of the common era onwards, a number of inscriptions belonging to the dynasties of Pallava, Chola and Pandya are found.
In the northern group, the Gupta script was very influential, and in the southern group the Vatteluttu and Old-Kannada Pallava scripts with the spread of Buddhism sent Brahmic scripts throughout Southeast Asia.
Johnston supposes that Yáng Xuànzhī mistook the name of the south-Indian Pallava dynasty for the name of the Sassanian Pahlava dynasty.sfn He traveled from the wild borderlands to China.
Kedah—known as Kedaram, Cheh-Cha (according to I-Ching) or Kataha, in ancient Pallava or Sanskrit —was in the direct route of the invasions and was ruled by the Cholas from 1025.
Pallava grantha letters (not used in actual Tamil) but for transcribing foreign words.
South Indian culture was spread to Southeast Asia by the south Indian Pallava dynasty in the 4th and 5th century.