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{{Infobox royalty
| title = '''Dharmamahārājadhirāja'''
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| reign = c. 360 - 385 CE
| predecessor = [[Mayurasharma]]
| successor = [[Bhageerath]]
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| house = [[Kadamba dynasty|Kadamba]]
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{{Banavasi Kadamba Kings Infobox}}
'''Kangavarma''' ({{reign|{{circa|360}}|385 CE}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Karashima |editor1-first=Noboru |title=A Concise History of South India |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New Delhi, India |isbn=9780198099772 |page=369}}</ref>) or '''Kangavarman''' was the second ruler of the [[Kadamba dynasty]] in [[South India]]. His name is sometimes also read as '''Skandavarman'''.<ref name = "classical">{{cite book |author1=R. Sathianathaier|editor1-last=Majumdar |editor1-first=R.C. |title=The Classical Age |date=1997 |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |page=272 |edition=Fifth}}</ref> Kangavarma succeeded his father [[Mayurasharma]], the founder of the Kadamba kingdom.

The [[Talagunda pillar inscription]] indicates that Kangavarma's reign was a turbulent one with many bitter wars.<ref name="Mishra1979">{{cite book|last=Mishra|first=Phanikanta|title=The Kadambas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voseAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Mithila Prakasana|pages=19–20}}</ref> Although we lack details of the wars which Kangavarma had to face, it is likely that the [[Vakatakas]] were among his foremost enemies. In particular, Kangavarman's contemporary to the north was the Vakataka king [[Vindhyasena]] of Vatsagulma, who is credited with a victory against the Kadambas.<ref name="singh">{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Upinder |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India From the Stone Age to the 12th Century |date=2016 |publisher=Pearson India Education Services |isbn=9788131716779 |page=484}}</ref> While some scholars agree that Kangavarma suffered defeat at the hands of the Vakatakas,<ref name = "classical"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jouveau-Dubreuil |first1=Gabriel |title=Ancient History of the Deccan |date=1920 |location=Pondicherry |pages=99-100 |url=https://archive.org/details/ancienthistoryof00jouvrich/}}</ref> other scholars believe that Kangavarma was mostly successful in resisting the Vakataka invasion and preserving the independence of the Kadamba kingdom.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moraes |first1=George |title=The Kadamba Kula |date=1931 |publisher=B.X. Furtado & Sons |location=Bombay |page=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sastri |first1=K.A. Nilakanta |title=A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar |date=1961 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=110 |edition=Third}}</ref>

Kangavarma assumed the title ''Dharmamahārājadhirāja'', which continued to be used by his successors. Similar titles were used by other dynasties of South India including the [[Pallavas]] and the later [[Chalukyas of Badami]], as well as by the Vakataka rivals of the Kadambas.<ref>Singh (2016), pp. 481-482</ref> Kangavarma also used the surname of ''[[varma (surname)|varma]]'' (which was historically associated with the [[Kshatriya]] caste) instead of ''sharma'', a convention which many later Kadamba kings followed. Kangavarma was succeeded on the Kadamba throne by his son [[Bhageerath]].

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