in  southern India  and possibly of royal lineage. However  Broughton (1999 :2) notes that Bodhidharma's royal pedigree implies that he was of the  Kshatriya  warrior  caste .  Mahajan (1972 :705–707) argued that the  Pallava  dynasty was a  Tamilian  dynasty and  Zvelebil (1987 ) proposed that Bodhidharma was born a prince of