A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c14.57

c14.57

Rājādhirāja II's successor was Kulottunga III whose exact relationship to the main line is not clear. He began his reign in July 1178, though Rājādhirāja lived up to 1182. By his personal ability, Kulottunga delayed the disruption of the Chola empire for about a generation, and his reign marks the last great epoch in the history of Chola architecture and art as he himself is the last of the great Chola monarchs.