The birudas of Mahendravarman I are in Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu.

Mahendravarman I used the biruda, Satrumalla, " a warrior who overthrows his enemies ", and his grandson Paramesvara I was called Ekamalla " the sole warrior or wrestler ".

With the accession of Simhavishnu, father of Mahendravarman I, ( c. 575 CE ), the Pallava revival began in the south.

Mahendravarman I re-established the Pallava Kingdom after defeating the Kalabhras.

Some of the most ornate monuments at Mamallapuram, were constructed under the rule of King Mahendravarman I.

* Mahendravarman I 590 – 630 CE

* Mahendravarman I ( ca.

* Mahendravarman I 571 – 630

Direct extensive contacts with these regions were maintained from the maritime commerce city Mamallapuram, where Mahendravarman I and his son " Mahamalla " Narasimhavarman I built the Shore Temple of the Seven Pagodas of Mahabalipuram.

Mahendravarman I was initially a patron of the Jain faith.

A number of rock-cut cave temples bear the inscription of the Pallava king, Mahendravarman I and his successors.

He was portrayed as a great conqueror in Mattavilasa Prahasana ( drunken revelry ), a drama written by his son Mahendravarman I.

This is a noteworthy point as his son Mahendravarman I was a Jaina who opposed all the Saivaite practices before being converted to Saivism.

Simhavishnu was succeeded by his son Mahendravarman I.

Narasimhavarman I was succeeded by his son Mahendravarman II in the year 668 CE.

Mahendravarman I, the Pallava emperor plays an important role in the first half of the story while his son Narasimhavarman comes into his own as the novel progresses.

The Kailasanatha temple in Kanchipuram and the Shore Temple built by Narasimhavarman II, rock cut temple in Mahendravadi by Mahendravarman are fine examples of the Pallava style temples.

Paranjothi believes Wajrabahu is a Pallava spy only to later realize that it is fact the Pallava King, Mahendravarman himself.

He defeated the Pallava king Mahendravarman and conquered the Cheras and the Pandyas.

At the same time, king Mahendravarman established peace with the neighboring kingdom of Champa through marriage arrangements, and Isnavarman, who succeeded him in 616, moved to a new capital, which, according to a Chinese writer, was inhabited by 20 thousands families.

He shared his father Mahendravarman I's love of art and completed the work started by Mahendravarman in Mahabalipuram.

That night Paranjothi is arrested by the guards and is kept in a cell since Mahendravarman wants to see and award the young man who saved the life of his most important artists.

Nanganandhi is arrested by Mahendravarman in Kanchi.

But Mahendravarman tries to convince and finally makes sure Narasimhavarman is not in town when Pulakesi enters it, by asking the prince to go to war with the Pandya kings in the south.

Sivagami comes from Mandapapattu and performs in the royal assemblage after being requested by Mahendravarman.

: Outshone by Mahendravarman in the first half of the book, Narasimhavarman takes a life of his own later on.

The Kolathiri appropriated this through 237 Tulu Brahmins ( Embranthiris ) sent by King Mahendravarman of Gokarnam.

Later the king during that time, Mahendravarman, ordered his men to engraved the inscription away.

It is recorded in the inscription K. 151 from Robaṅ Romãs at Īśānapura ( the archaeological site of Saṃbór Prei Kŭk ) that a certain Narasiṃhagupta, who was vassal ( sam ­ ān ­ tanṛpa ) of the successive kings Bhavavarman, Mahendravarman ( the ruling name of Citrasena ) and Īśānavarman erected on the 13th April 598 during the reign of Bhavavarman a figure of Kalpavāsudeva ( Viṣṇu ).

Mahendravarman also orders a livid Narasimhavarman, that he should stay in Kanchi and safeguard it when he goes and takes care of Pulikesi in the battle field.

The emperor Mahendravarman reaches the village and almost begs Sivagami to forget marrying Narasimhavarman something which Sivagami claims is very difficult for her to do.

Narasimhavarman Pallava I transported his troops to Sri Lanka to help Manavarman to reclaim the throne.

The 4th century saw the rise of the Pallava power I, which for some 400 years encroached on, without extinguishing the Tamil kingdoms.

The name Mamallapuram is believed to have been given after the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I, who took on the epithet Maha-malla ( great wrestler ), as the favourite sport of the Pallavas was wrestling.

The city of Mahabalipuram was largely developed by the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I in the 7th century AD.

His son Aditya I defeated the Pallava king Aparajita and extended the Chola territories to Tondaimandalam.

The Pallavas captured Kanchi from the Cholas as recorded in the Velurpalaiyam Plates, around the reign of the fifth king of the Pallava line Kumaravishnu I.

With the accession of Nandivarman I ( 480 – 500 CE ), the decline of the early Pallava family was seen.

Pallava royal lineages were established in the old kingdom of Kedah of the Malay Peninsula under Rudravarman I, Chenla under Bhavavarman I, Champa under Bhadravarman I and the Kaundinya-Gunavarman line of the Funan in Cambodia, eventually their rule growing to form the Khmer Empire.

Vikramaditya thus wiped out the disgrace that had fallen on the Chalukya empire by the occupation of Vatapi a century ago by the Pallava Narasimhavarman I.

Narasimhavarman I () was a Tamil king of the Pallava dynasty who ruled South India from 630 – 668 CE.

However, the Pallava reign had moved on to Narasimhavarman I by then.

It has to be noted here that even though Narasimhavarman I was punitive he was not the first of Pallava kings both to confront or decimate this enemy many Pallava kings through ages had been undertaking expeditions into this deccan territory.

The armies of Pandyas and Nripatunga Pallava were routed by Aparajita Pallava and Aditya I Chola.

During 903 CE, the 32nd year of his reign, Aditya I Chola, not satisfied with his subordinate position, planned and carried out an attack on his erstwhile overlord, the Pallava king Aparajita.

The great Chola king Adithya chola I captured the thondamandalm in 891 A. D. from the Pallava king Kanchi was the Thondaimandalam.

An inscribed stone bar, rectangular in shape, bears the ye-dharmma formula in Pallava script of the fourth century A. D., thus proclaiming the Buddhist character of the shrine near the find-spot ( site I ) of which only the basement survives.