Editing Simhavishnu (section)

==Expansion of kingdom==
When Simhavishnu ascended the throne, the Pallava dynasty was beginning to reassert its supremacy.

The southern peninsula of India was then ruled by five dynasties. The Pallavas, the [[Cholas]] and the [[Pandyas]] shared the power in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], parts of southern and eastern [[Karnataka]] border and [[Ceylon]]; the [[Chera Dynasties|Cheras]] controlled [[Kerala]] and the [[Chalukyas]] controlled [[Karnataka]]. Simhavishnu, who was known for his gallant martial courage and judicial wisdom from a young age, overthrew the [[Kalabhras]] and conquered the region up to [[Kaveri]], where he came into conflict with the Pandyas and Ceylon.<ref name="sastri135"/> He dispatched a naval expedition and occupied Malaya and Sri Lanka and established Kanchipuram as his capital. The presence of the Pallavas, much before further naval expeditions to Indo-China by their illustrious succeeding and contemporary empires such as the Pandiyans and the Cholas, is attested by the existence of specimen of art bearing striking resemblance in countries like Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, as well as scores of inscriptions in those lands in the Grantha script (a script in which both Tamil and Sanskrit can be written) in which the Pallavas were the first to specialize.<ref>[http://www.whatsindia.com/south_indian_inscriptions]{{dead link|date=June 2019}}</ref>

Simhavishnu led the revival of the Pallavas, and the period starting with him came to be known as the Greater Pallavas or Later Pallavas dynasty. The great struggle between the Pallavas and the Chalukyas, which would last for more than two centuries, began during the reign of Simhavishnu.