Sons of Rajaraja
  • The exact count of Rajaraja's children - for that matter many later
    chola king's children - is unclear.

    I've always thought that RR could have had more than one son.
    Kudanthai N. Sethuraman cleared my doubt. He introduces atleast one
    more son of Rajaraja. We are - rather unfortunately - unable to get
    the name of this son. Only his title is available : Gangai kondan -
    suggesting that he participated in ganges expetition.

    Whose son is he ? We do not know - but Kundanthai suggests he might
    be panchavan madevi's son. With due respects, it is rather a far
    fetched assumption in my opinion.

    This guy lived along with rajendra / rajadhiraja and was held in
    high respect and was ruling certain regions of chola territory. His
    son - again only the title is available - by name Alavandhan (!) -
    was given the pandiyan territory to rule and so on..

    We know very little or nothing about one of rajaraja's daughter
    (madhevedigal) and even rajendra's daughter (arumozhi nangai)..

    This is again a sample. There are many things like this in tamil
    history waiting to be uncovered...
  • Dear Gokul

    did Rajendra have a daughter called arulmozhinangai I thought that was a imaginary charector of akilan???



    because history only talks about his other daughter married to Chalukyas Ammangai Devi



    am I right
  • Anbulla Sridhar Rathinam, Gokul, avarkalukku:

    I give below the information from an inscription from Thirumalavadi
    in Thirutchirappalli of the 29th year, 102 day of the reign of
    Rajadhiraja Chola - 1 which reads as follows.

    "A pearl umbrella by Madhurantaka-devan Arumoli-nangaiyar alias
    Piranar, daughter of Rajendra-choladeva (was gifted)...."

    Here we note the name of Arumoli-nangaiyar is prefixed with
    Madhurantaka-devan, probably to "further" indicate that she was the
    daughter of Madurantka-devan being another name of Rajendra Chola - 1

    This "may be" for the reason to differentiate among two of them with
    same name of the same period, the other being being her brother
    Virarajendra's wife Arumoli-nangai.

    Hope the above is of interest to you

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