What is the period of rise of the Chalukyas in Karnataka and of the Pallavas in Tamil Nadu?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → 500-600 CE
The Chalukyas of Badami (Vatapi) in Karnataka and the Pallavas of Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu rose to power in the sixth century CE, after the decline of the Guptas in the north.
Chalukyas — Pulakeshin I made Badami his capital in the middle of the sixth century; his grandson Pulakeshin II stopped Harshavardhana on the Narmada.
Pallavas — Simhavishnu built up Pallava power in the late sixth century; his grandson Narasimhavarman I (Mamalla) began the rock-cut temples of Mamallapuram.
The two kingdoms fought each other for much of the next two centuries.