Kadamba dynasty

<p>The Kadamba dynasty were an ancient royal family from modern <a href="/facts/Karnataka/NhJAc4t9">Karnataka</a>, India, that ruled northern Karnataka and the <a href="/facts/Konkan/M2lA8LJH">Konkan</a> from <a href="/facts/Banavasi/eoyNkm9h">Banavasi</a> in present-day <a href="/facts/Uttara_Kannada/ERb7qjAS">Uttara Kannada district</a> in India. The kingdom was founded by <a href="/facts/Mayurasharma/muTvzBKL">Mayurasharma</a> in c. 345, and at later times showed the potential of developing into imperial proportions. An indication of their imperial ambitions is provided by the titles and epithets assumed by its rulers, and the marital relations they kept with other kingdoms and empires, such as the <a href="/facts/Vakataka_dynasty/V8awbU1Q">Vakatakas</a> and <a href="/facts/Gupta_Dynasty/KbMVInGv">Guptas</a> of <a href="/facts/North_India/tIUqMm15">northern India</a>. Mayurasharma defeated the armies of the <a href="/facts/Pallavas_of_Kanchi/wyt798s7">Pallavas of Kanchi</a> possibly with the help of some native tribes and claimed sovereignty. The Kadamba power reached its peak during the rule of <a href="/facts/Kakusthavarma/luvvzpMI">Kakusthavarma</a>. 
</p><p>The Kadambas were contemporaries of the <a href="/facts/Western_Ganga_dynasty/9lnfgyKm">Western Ganga dynasty</a> and together they formed the earliest native kingdoms to rule the land with autonomy. From the mid-6th century the dynasty continued to rule as a vassal of larger Kannada empires, the <a href="/facts/Badami_Chalukya_Empire/kfwnEMqT">Chalukya</a> and the <a href="/facts/Rashtrakuta/VpKg6gXK">Rashtrakuta</a> empires for over five hundred years during which time they branched into minor dynasties. Notable among these are the <a href="/facts/Kadambas_of_Goa/97e7W24E">Kadambas of Goa</a>, the <a href="/facts/Kadambas_of_Halasi/41KjjVkL">Kadambas of Halasi</a> and the <a href="/facts/Kadambas_of_Hangal/SeDmB6m8">Kadambas of Hangal</a>. During the pre-Kadamba era the ruling families that controlled the Karnataka region, the <a href="/facts/Mauryas/STQagR1r">Mauryas</a> and later the <a href="/facts/Satavahanas/sc5IRQsk">Satavahanas</a>, were not natives of the region and therefore the nucleus of power resided outside present-day Karnataka. The Kadambas were the first indigenous dynasty to use <a href="/facts/Kannada/cooJ3trn">Kannada</a>, the language of the soil, at an administrative level. In the <a href="/facts/History_of_Karnataka/JxTfyuvP">History of Karnataka</a>, this era serves as a broad-based historical starting point in the study of the development of the region as an enduring geo-political entity and <a href="/facts/Kannada/cooJ3trn">Kannada</a> as an important language.
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