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  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Chola
The Chola territories stretched from the islands of the Maldives in the South to as far North as the banks of the river Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.
At its peak, the Chola Empire stretched from the island of Sri Lanka in the south to the Godavari basin in the north.
Chola navies invaded and conquered Srivijaya in the Malayan archipelago.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Chola   (5746 words)

  
 Rajendra Chola I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rajendra’s Tiruvalangadu grants claim that he …’took possession of the bright spotless pearls, seeds of the fame of the Pandya kings’ and that ‘…the fearless Mdurantaka (Rajendra) crossed the mountains and in a fierce battle brought ruin upon the Kerala kings.
Rajendra appointed one of his sons as viceroy with the title Jadavarman Sundara Chola-Pandya’’’ with Madurai as the headquarters of the Viceroyalty.
The Chola imperialism was a benevolent one attested by the presence of the traditional rulers in the Pandya and Kerala countries and the act of reinstating the Srivijaya king after his defeat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rajendra_Chola_I   (2117 words)

  
 Kulothunga Chola I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their son Rajaraja Narendra was closely allied to the Cholas, his maternal relatives, who periodically intervened in the affairs of the Vengi throne propping up Rajaraja Narendra in the Vengi throne whenever he was threatened by one rival or the other.
Rajendra Chola II crowned himself Chola emperor on the battlefield, then led the Cholas to victory against the Chalukyan army.
Kulothunga Chola was born Rajendra Chalukya to the Eastern Chalukyan king Rajaraja Narendra and Ammanga Devi, the daughter of Rajendra Chola I.
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 Rajadhiraja Chola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Like all conquerors, Cholas were exasperated by the natural desire of the Sinhalese to be rid of them, seem to have adopted savage methods of repression such as transportation, decapitation, mutilation even against the royal family of Lanka.
Rajadhiraja, eager to subdue the rising power of the Western Chalukyas and to restore Chola influence with the Eastern Chalukyas in Vengi, personally led an expedition into the Telugu country in 1046 C.E. He defeated the Western Chalukya forces in a battle at Dannada on the river Krishna and set fire to their fort.
In the early stages of the Koppam battle, Rajadhiraja himself led the armies with Rajendra Chola II holding himself in reserve.
erwiki.com /article/Rajadhiraja_Chola   (1090 words)

  
 Ceylon Tamils
The kinship between the Jaffna kings and the Cholas is related in the Yalpana Vaipava Malai in the form of a myth.
The Princess Maruthappiravikavalli, daughter of Thisaiyukkira Chola, was cursed with the face of a horse.
The Cholas had, by this time, lost control of their kingdom in Tamil Nadu, with Rajendra Chola IV being king in the Tanjore area around 1279.
www.ceylontamils.com /history/history3.php   (1834 words)

  
 math lessons - Cholas
The early Cholas ruled between the 1st and the 4th centuries A.D. The first and the most famous king of the early Cholas was Karikalan.
Chola power declined with frequent attacks by the Pallavas, Cheras and Pandyas, but they rose to power again around the 9th century.
Rajendra later completed the conquest of Sri Lanka, crossed the Ganges and marched across Kalinga to Bengal, and sent out a great naval expedition that occupied parts of Myanmar, Malaya, and Sumatra.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Chola   (371 words)

  
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Rajendra Chola was a chola king who reigned the southern India between 1014-42 and during his time extended his empire to Sri Lanka, Mayanmar, Malaya, Indonesian islands.
Thanks to their imperial energy and unprecedented vision, the Cholas dominated the amorphous maritime empire of the Sailendras for nearly a century.
As Balram Srivastava observes in Rajendra Chola: 'The Chola navigators supported the Indian colonies in the far east and established a firm rule of the Cholas in Sri Vijaya.
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 Coins of Chola time
A Chola kingdom is believed to have existed from the third century BC.
Rajendra Chola 1012 -1044 took also the title Uttama Chola (II) and the coin could be attributed to him.
Rajendra Chola also took the title Yuddhamalla and the coin could be attributed to him.
www.tranquebar.dk /chola.htm   (369 words)

  
 Thanjavur Periya Koyil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The town of Thanjavur was the seat of the glorious Chola Empire of Tamilnadu, and was later on the seat of the Nayaks and the Marathas.
His son Rajendra Chola (1014 - 1044 AD) was a greater conqueror who marched all the way to the banks of the Ganges.
The grandeur of the architecture and the sculptural finesse speaks volumes of the skills of the Imperial Cholas.
www.templenet.com /Tamilnadu/brihtanj.html   (920 words)

  
 India - Thanjavur - Silver Kasu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A silver Kasu of Rajendra Chola (1014 - 1044) of Thanjavur in ThamilNadu, after he adopted the titls GanGai Konda Chola He was the son of Rajaraja Chola (985-1014) who invaded Lanka in 990 AD.
Rajendra Chola succeeded in extended Chola occupation over the whole island of Lanka in 1018.
The emblem of a "tiger facing two fish" was adopted by ThamilNadu, Thanjavur Uttama Chola (973-985) silver kasu coin The seated tiger represented the Chola homeland, the upright fish for the Pandya conquest, and the Bow for the chera conquest, under the umbrella of great Chola Empire.
lakdiva.org /coins/medievalindian/rajendra_chola_ag.html   (266 words)

  
 Cholas - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
The Chola empire was completely overshadowed by the Pandyan empire, though many small chieftains continued to claim the title "Chola" well into fifteenth century C.E. edit]
It is possible that these syllables denote "Deva Kulo[tunga]" (Kulothunga Chola I).
^ Copperplate grants of the Pallava Buddhavarman(late 4th century CE) mention that the king as the 'underwater fire that destroyed the ocean of the Chola army' - Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. The CoLas, 1935 pp 104 - 105 Simhavishnu (575–600 CE) is also stated to have seized the Chola country.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Cholas   (5732 words)

  
 RAJENDRA CHOLA
This is a brief illuminating biography, which present an absorbing account of the life of Rajendra Chola who can be reckoned as one of the greatest rulers of India.
Balram Srivastava, a reputed scholar of south Indian history and culture, has published several important papers on the subject, including Trade and Commerce in Ancient India and Studies in Pallava Art and Iconography.
Best viewed at 800 x 600 screen size
www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDD725   (70 words)

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