Contributions of chola. Dynasty in the feild of irrigation
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Answer:Tanjavur is bounded on the north by south arcot district, on the south by Pudukottai district, on the east by the Bay of Bengal and on the west by the Trichirapalli district the city municipal limit is within an area of 40sq km the present population is around 2,405,890 people. The chola kingdom was one of the ancient lands in the ninth century A.D in south India. It is referred to in the mahabharatas, the indica of magasthenese, the inscriptions of Ashoka, the mahavamsa, and the periplus of the Erythrean sea. Bounded by the two rivers, the pennar and velar, the chola kingdom grew up in Tanjore, Trichirapalli and Pudukottai Region. The Cholas as a dynasty date back to the Sangam period (second century B.C to second century A.D) but disappear from the south Indian scene at the end of it not be heard of till the rise of the house of vijayalaya in the 9th century A.D)A predominantly delta area lying along the west of the Bay of Bengal. Thanjavur is the called know as ‘rice bowl of Tamilnadu state’. One of thirty-two district, alone accounts for nearly one-fourth of the total areas under paddy and more than a quarter of the total output of paddy cultivation in and around Thanjavur district. Historically the area has been benefited by the availability of natural flow of irrigation from a number of rivers which pass through the region. The largest of these the Cauvery, has a length of 500 miles from its source in neighbouring Mysore state to outlet in eastern Thanjavur.
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