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According to the inscription, Mayurasharma was a Vaidika brahmin and scholar and a native of Talagunda. He was the son of Bandhushena, grandson of his guru (teacher) Veerasharma and a student at the Agrahara (place of learning) in Talagunda. [1] [2] [5] The inscription confirms the family is named for the Kadamba tree that grew near the family ...
The Gollarahatti and the Atakur inscription are in memory of a dog that died fighting wild boar, and the Tambur inscription of a Kadamba king of the Goa branch describes his death from sorrow of losing his pet parrot to a cat, [77] and the Kuppatur stone was in memory of a bonded servant who was given the honorific "slayer of the enemy" (ripu ...
One traveller's account mentions sixteen castes including the four basic castes of Brahmins, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Chandalas. [2] One caste known as Zakaya or Lahud consisted of people belonging to communities specialising in dance and acrobatics. [3] Intercaste marriages were uncommon except between highly placed Kshatriya girls and Brahmin boys.
The Kadambas of Banavasi declined by sixth century, by the tenth century Kadamba were local chiefs, the Kadamba of Hangal emerged as a vassal of the Western Chalukyas, and the Kadambas of Goa at Goa and Konkan until the fourteenth century. Similarly some more minor Kadamba branches established, they remained vassals. [6]
The inscriptions thus describe Kadambas as Brahmins turned conquerors and praise Brahmins as "Gods on earth, and speakers of Sama, Rig and Yajur Vedas". [12] The Kadamba lineage is described as descending from a three-sage line in the Hariti pravara and belonging to the Manavya gothra. [12] A view of the Talagunda pillar
Kangavarma succeeded his father Mayurasharma, the founder of the Kadamba kingdom. The Talagunda pillar inscription indicates that Kangavarma's reign was a turbulent one with many bitter wars. [ 3 ] Although we lack details of the wars which Kangavarma had to face, it is likely that the Vakatakas were among his foremost enemies.
The Myazedi inscription c. 1112–1113 in Pyu A Pyu inscription from Hanlin Archeological Museum, Burma. The Pyu script is a writing system used to write the Pyu language, an extinct Sino-Tibetan language that was mainly spoken in present-day central Burma. It was based on the Brahmi-based scripts of both north and south India. The best ...
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