High Middle Ages · South Asia · War
1014
Rajendra Chola begins northern campaign
1014
The Tamil emperor, already master of Sri Lanka and the southern peninsula, dispatched his generals northward through Kalinga toward the Ganges. His armies defeated the rulers of Orissa and Bengal in succession, carrying water from the sacred river back to the Chola capital. Rajendra took the title Gangaikonda, Bringer of the Ganges, and built a new city to celebrate.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.