#Mayurasharman

“Karnataka's political history — the unbroken line that runs Kadamba, Chalukya, Rāṣṭrakūṭa, Hoysala, Vijayanagara — begins not with a conqueror's ambition but with one insulted student, and we know it because his great-great-grandsons carved the family's embarrassing, glorious origin into stone and did not clean it up.”

“A Brahmin student, humiliated at the Pallava capital where he had come to study the Veda, put down his sacrificial grass, picked up a sword, fought a guerrilla war from the forests — and founded the first state ever ruled from within what is now Karnataka.”