Kadamba family

Kadamba family, minor dynastic power that held sway in an area to the northwest of Mysore city on the Indian subcontinent between the 4th and 6th centuries ce. Their chroniclers claim that the family migrated from northern India, but other records suggest that they were indigenous to Kuntala (northern Kanara). An early inscription, the accuracy of which is unknown, describes the dynastic founder, Mayurasharman, as a learned Brahman who, after being insulted by a Pallava...