Talk:Uttama (Chola dynasty)

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Please replace the name 'Chola' (சோள) that means the name of an eatable grain, with 'Chozha' (சோழ) which means the name of a king and/or his dynasty.Helppublic (talk) 09:51, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reformatting this article[edit]

I have reformatted this article to align with the other Chola bio pages I have done. I have kept most of the information from the original article in tact apart from minor copyedits.

I have rewritten thr following paragraph to remove inserts from pupular fiction and kept the matter purely historical: He succeeded his cousin Parantaka Chola II as the Chola king under dramatic circumstances. When Aditya Karikalan, the eldest son of Parantaka Chola II was all set to succeed his father as the king of Cholas, he was assassinated in a place called Kadambur. Soon, Parantaka Chola II was dead, and the kingdom was in chaos. Popular opinion was to give the throne to Rajaraja Chola I, but Rajaraja sacrificed the throne to in favour of his uncle Uththama Chola as Uththama was the elder than himself, and also as Uththama was the son of Kandarathitha Chola, who ruled the Chola kingdom from 950 to 957.

It is not know where Aditya II was killed.

Venu62 04:42, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was common for the Chola kings to issue coins with devanagri scripts. See lakdiva.org.

Parthi (Venu62) 19:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is a well understood coin of Uttama Chola and not a Bengali coin. During this time of the coin, there was no Bengali influence in Illam. Further, the clear depiction of the fish (Pandya) and bow (Chera) on the coin shows that it is chola anscestry who had control over both dominions.

User:Asitaram 11:47, 8 Jan 2007 (UTC)

"Uththama Chola"[edit]

The text calls him "Uttama". Somewhere it should explain why the page name is different. Or maybe the page needs to be moved to Uttama Chola. Robin Patterson 13:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong identification by Sastri[edit]

Th paternal uncle Madurantaka mentioned in the Tiruvelangadu plates is not Madurantaka Uttama Chola, the son of Sembiyan Madevi. I will fix. Sembiyan (talk) 04:50, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If I had succeeded Aditya Karikala by killig him, should I not be a Rajakesari ? But I have been a Parakesari for most of my life. Tell me now, who killed Aditya Karikala ? Sembiyan (talk) 04:03, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

'Chola' - renaming to the correct one.[edit]

Chola, ( சோள), a name of an eatable grain, is to be changed to,

'Chozha' (சோழ), which means to name of a King or a dynasty. Helppublic (talk) 06:30, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]