Aditya Karikalan

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Karikalan · Nedunkilli
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Interregnum (c.200–848)

Medieval Cholas
Vijayalaya Chola	848–891(?)
Aditya Chola I	891–907
Parantaka Chola I	907–950
Gandaraditya Chola	950–957
Arinjaya Chola	956–957
Sundara Chola	957–970
Uttama Chola	970–985
Rajaraja Chola I	985–1014
Rajendra Chola I	1012–1044
Rajadhiraja Chola	1018–1054
Rajendra Chola II	1051–1063
Virarajendra Chola	1063–1070
Athirajendra Chola	1067–1070
Later Cholas
Kulothunga Chola I	1070–1120
Vikrama Chola	1118–1135
Kulothunga Chola II	1133–1150
Rajaraja Chola II	1146–1173
Rajadhiraja Chola II	1166–1178
Kulothunga Chola III	1178–1218
Rajaraja Chola III	1216–1256
Rajendra Chola III	1246–1279

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Aditya Karikalan or Aditya II was the most powerful Chola prince who lived in the tenth century in South India. He was born in Tirukoilur. He was the eldest son of Sundara Chola and the brother of Rajaraja Chola I.

At a very young age he led the Chola armies against the Pandyas. He defeated the Pandya king Veerapandyan at the battle of Chevur and made him flee to the hills surrounding the battlefield. It is also possible that Aditya Karikalan killed Vira Pandya in that battle. Aditya II’s inscriptions use the epithet Vira Pandyan Thalai Konda koparakesari" for Adithha Karikalan – "took the head of Vira Pandya".

Aditya who was the co-regent and heir apparent to the Chola throne was murdered under unclear circumstances during the reign of his father sundara chola .He said to be killed in the palace of Sambuvaraya at Kadambur now so calledMelakadambur lies in cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. The inquiry into the case was finished only in the 2nd year of Rajaraja Chola I. The lands of a few officials like one bearing the title Irumudi Chola were appropriated during that year as per the order signed by Kurukādi Kilān.^[1]

Uttama Chola, the son of Gandaraditya became the next Chola king.^[2]

Notes

↑ Epigraphia Indica, Volume 21, page 167
↑ See Neelakanta Sanstri, K.A., The Colas

References

Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. (1935). The CōĻas, University of Madras, Madras (Reprinted 1984).
Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. (1955). A History of South India, OUP, New Delhi (Reprinted 2002).
A Topographical List of Inscriptions in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala States: Thanjavur District By T. V. Mahalingam

Persondata
Name	Aditya Karikalan
Alternative names
Short description	Prince
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	969
Place of death

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