Kakusthavarma
Kakusthavarma (r. c. 425 – 450 CE[1]) or Kakusthavarman was a ruler of the Kadamba dynasty in South India.Kakusthavarma held court as the heir apparent, perhaps at Palashika (present-day Halasi) from where he is known to have issued land grants.[6][7][8] Kakusthavarma appears to have been a great builder and avid patron of secular architecture as well as of religious causes.[4] Kakusthavarma's son and successor, Santivarma, records in his Talagunda pillar inscription that his father had constructed a great water tank near a Shiva temple at which Satakarni and other kings of the past had worshipped.One of Kakusthavarma's sons, Santivarma, succeeded his father at Banavasi and ruled over the northern part of the Kadamba realm.