The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.25

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The accession in 985 A. D. of a strong ruler, Rājarāja-deva the Great, put an end to dynastic intrigue, and placed at the head of the Chola state a man qualified to make it the leading power in the South. In the course of a busy reign of about twenty-eight years, Rājarāja passed from victory to victory, and, when he died, was beyond dispute the Lord Paramount of Southern India, ruling a realm which included nearly the whole of the Madras Presidency, Ceylon, and a large part of Mysore.