The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.26

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He began his career by the conquest of the Chera country,² and in the fourteenth year of his reign his acquisitions on the mainland comprised the Eastern Chalukya kingdom of Vengī, formerly held by the Pallavas, Coorg, the Pāndya country, and extensive regions in the table-land of the Deccan. During the next three years, Quilon (Kollam) on the Malabar coast, and the northern kingdom of Kalinga were added to his dominions. Protracted campaigns in Ceylon next occupied Rājarājā, and resulted in the annexation of the island in the twentieth year of his reign. In or about A. D. 1005 he sheathed the sword and spent the rest of his life in peace. From 1011 his son Rājendra became his colleague, in accordance with Chola custom.