State · 275 – 897

Pallava dynasty

A state of 275 – 897 — 622 years in South Asia. It replaced Satavahana dynasty and Kalabhra dynasty. It was replaced by Chola dynasty and Eastern Chalukyas. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 622 years; 275 – 897
Rulers: 2; the Ruler
Most ground: 306,500 km²; in 306

Map: Pallava dynasty in 306, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Pallava dynasty in 306, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 306,500 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Pallava dynasty in 306, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Pallava dynasty in 772, last mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Kalabhra dynasty · replaces · 250 – 600
Satavahana dynasty · replaces · 230 BCE – 220 CE

After it

Chola dynasty · replaced by · 300 BCE – 1279 CE
Eastern Chalukyas · replaced by · 624 – 1189

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Simhavarman I	275 – 300	25 years	ending not on record
Aparajitavarman	885 – 897	12 years	ending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 275 – 897. Median reign 18.5 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

51,200 km² in 300, 105,000 km² in 800; at its largest 306,500 km² in 325. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood622 years
stood longer than 91% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held306,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 66% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median25 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 75% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 213 – 959, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 306, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q466803 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.