The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.48

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Adhirājendra appears to have left no issue capable of ruling, and so was succeeded by his relative Rājendra, subsequently known as Kulottunga I. Rājendra, whose mother was a daughter of the famous Gaṅgaikoṇḍa Chola, was the son of the Eastern Chalukya prince of Veṅgi who had died in 1062. But Rājendra had preferred to remain at the Chola court, and had allowed his uncle to rule Veṅgi for some years. In 1070¹ Rājendra was crowned as lord of Veṅgi, and four years later, when Adhirājendra was murdered, he assumed the government of the whole Chola territory. He thus founded a new Chalukya-Chola dynasty, taking the title of Kulottuṅga Chola. He was worthy of his position and ruled his extensive dominions successfully for forty-nine years. He reconquered Kaliṅga, defeating the Eastern Gaṅga king, Anantavarman Choda. His internal administration was distinguished by the execution of an elaborate revision of the revenue survey in A. D. 1086, the year of the survey for Domesday Book.