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The emergence of the Chola power from obscurity, its rise to an important position and its conflicts, first with the Rashtrakutas from beyond the Tungabhadra and later with their successor, the Chalukyas of Kalyani, form the dominant features of the history of South India in the period 850 AD- 1200 AD. Vijyalaya was the founder of the Chola Empire who was at first a feudatory of the Pallavas.
Thanjavur ,Vellur,Polannaruva are some places ruled by them.
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Inscriptions. A word of caution. Among the three dynasties, the
most has been written about the Cholas. Of the more than 18,000 Tamil
inscriptions deciphered so far, about 10,000 of them are attributed
to the Cholas.9
These inscriptions, despite their overwhelming
numbers, are not of much value as historical documents.10 They
invariably begin with a prasasti, a lengthy, embellished narrative of
the semi-mythical history of the dynasty,11 then record the details
of the endowments the kings and the members of his family
established for such charitable causes as establishing brahmadeya
villages, maintaining the images donated to the temples or feeding
the priests. Apart from this they contain little else. For example,
the inscription of Rajaraja I at the Rajarajesvaram gives the names,
ancestry, street addresses and compensation of the 400 dancers of
the temple, but nothing about the temple’s construction-related
details.12 Similarly, another inscription of his that mentions the
victorious expedition to Southeast Asia gives no details about
navigational matters, the route of the expedition or the types of
vessels. It is odd that while some of the inscriptions are so precise