Water Engineering at Dvarahastri: Deciphering the Hydraulic Grids Beneath the Pallava Throne

Recent ground-penetrating radar surveys in the Aindi reservoir complex reveal a sophisticated subterranean channel network that predates the main Pallava fortifications by two centuries. These findings challenge the prevailing narrative that hydraulic urbanism in South India was purely a later Chola innovation, suggesting instead a continuous Dravidian construction tradition with specific implications for water-stress management in modern Andhra Pradesh.

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