Kangavarma (r. c. 360 – 385 CE[1]) or Kangavarman was the second ruler of the Kadamba dynasty in South India.
[3] 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.
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.
[8] Kangavarma also used the surname of varma (which was historically associated with the Kshatriya caste) instead of sharma, a convention which many later Kadamba kings followed.