The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.45
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.45
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The customary wars went on during the reigns of this king and three kings who succeeded him, but few of the details are worthy of remembrance. A notable incident was the battle of Kūdal Sangamam, fought at the junction of the Krishnā and Panch Ganga rivers,² in which the Chalukyas suffered a severe defeat at the hands of Vīrarājendra Chola (acc. A. D. 1062–3). In the civil war between the brothers and rival claimants to the Chalukya throne—Somesvara II and Vikramāditya—Vīrarājendra took the side of the latter, and gave him his daughter in marriage.