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504 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA have belonged to the same gotra. Hāritiputra Sivavarman was apparently succeeded by the Kadambas.?
1 The Kadamba line was founded by Mayursarman, a Brāhmaṇa, who rose against the Pallavas and helped by "Vrihad Bäņa" and other kings, compelled the lord of Kanchi to confer on him the Pattabandha of military governorship He soon pushed his conquests to the western ocean. His great-grandson Kākustha varman gave his daughters in marriage to the Gupta and other kings. Krishna varman I performed the Aśva medha. Mpigesa-varman defeated the Gangas and Pallavas and had his capital at Vaijayanti. Junior branches of the family ruled at Palāśikā, Uchchaśțingi and Triparvata. The Kadambas were finally overthrown by the Chalukyas. See Moraes, Kadamba-Kula ; Sircar, JIH, 1936, 301 ff.
