Pawan Maurya Chakravarti hails from Channahalli of Sidlaghatta Taluk , Chikkaballapur District of Karnataka. After completing his diploma in Manuscriptology specialising in ancient lipis, he is passionately involved in the study of inscriptions. He is author of ಆರಂಕುಶವಿಟ್ಟೊಡಂ - ಗಜ ಸಂಕಥನ - a study of Elephants and Mahouts in Indian history. This work has been greatly appreciated by scholars and experts in the field. For the last three years he has been actively researching the Nolamba Dynasty.