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One 1000 years agone (1023-1024 CE), Chola king Rajendra I’s service marched to the Gangetic plains, defeating galore kings connected the way, collected h2o from the Ganga, and poured it into Chola Gangam, the water Rajendra built successful his capital, Gangaikondacholapuram. What if idiosyncratic tried to travel the Chola way now? Ramesh Vangipuram, an IT professional, decided to bash precisely that. Because the Cholas did not permission down immoderate artefacts successful the regions they passed through, Ramesh had to trust connected accusation recovered successful the Thirumalai inscription, which gives the sequential bid of the places connected the Chola route. He had to hole the geographical boundaries of the kingdoms the service crossed. He drew up maps, which were validated by Odiyan student Kornel Das. “Rajendra did not pb his service to the Ganga, but stayed backmost successful Andhra,” clarifies Ramesh.
Ramesh travelled by bus, bid and cab to instrumentality the Chola route. But occasionally, helium had to deviate due to the fact that of applicable difficulties specified arsenic inhospitable terrains. Of the 2 imaginable routes from Rajahmundry to Sakkarakottam (present time Chitrakoot successful Chattisgarh), Ramesh believed the Cholas would person taken the way done Vengi, due to the fact that they had marital ties with the Eastern Chalukyas who ruled Vengi. Additionally, feudatories of Sakkarakottam that were connected this way could beryllium defeated.
