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I think /info/en/?search=Battle_of_Takkolam should be mentioned briefly in the page or linked at its bottom.
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The Chola empire never had full control of the island at any point in history, and this is already discussed in a large amount of literature published on the matter, including primary literature cited on the page. Spencer, G. W. The Politics of Plunder: The Cholas in Eleventh-Century Ceylon. The Journal of Asian Studies 1976, 35 (3), 405–419. https://doi.org/10.2307/2053272.
According to Spencer, “Under Rajendra Chola I, perhaps the most aggressive king of his line, Chola raids were launched southward from Rajarattha into Rohana. By his fifth year, Rajendra claimed to have completely conquered Ceylon, a claim that has led some historians to assert that Rajendra "completed" the conquest Rajaraja had begun. But the Cholas never really consolidated their control over southern Ceylon, which in any case lacked large and prosperous settlements to tempt long-term Chola occupation. Thus, under Rajendra, Chola predatory expansion in Ceylon began to reach a point of diminishing returns”
Moreover, Spencer talks about the continuous line of Sinhalese kings during the Chola period in the Rohana kingdom. “Ironically, the Chola settlements in the north in turn became targets of attack and plunder, partly because the Sinhalese "enemy"-remnants of the royal court and some chiefs who supported it were now more dispersed and capable of organizing guerrilla resistance. Since members of the royal house of Ceylon were natural rallying-points for counterattacks, the Cholas were anxious to seize them. The Culavamsa admits that Rajendra's forces captured King Mahinda and transported him to India, where he eventually died in exile.47 But Prince Kassapa, son of Mahinda, hid in Rohana, where Chola forces vainly searched for him. Kassapa assumed the title of Vikkamabahu I and ruled" in Rohana for several years (c. I029-Io4I)48 while attempting to organize a campaign of liberation and unification””
Thus it is clear that Cholar only had an influence on the Rohana kingdom of the south of Sri Lanka, not direct control. Lipwe ( talk) 03:37, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
New details:
Chola only had complete control of the Anuradhapura Kingdom, while the Principality of Ruhuna (Ruhunu Rata) was still under Sinhalese kings. States of the Principality of Malaya is not clear. The following map shows the area under each administrative unit. The corrected map only included the Principality of Ruhuna (Ruhunu Rata) as the area of influence, while the entire Principality of Malaya was put under Chola control, even though this might not be the case.
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 ( talk · contribs) 22:10, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Chola dynasty → Chola Empire – Enter the correct name please J.k.r0012 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:40, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
User:Tamilpadai You are in disagreement with multiple editors. Discuss your concerns here first instead of reverting again and again. Akshaypatill ( talk) 06:13, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
While it has always been recognized that Shaivism, together with Vaishnavism, constitutes one of the major traditions of Hinduism, it has become increasingly clear that Shaivism, in fact, played a key role in the development of Brahmanical Hinduism.....During the early medieval period, Shaivism became the dominant religious tradition of many Hindu regional kingdoms...
-Shaivism is the formal name for the group of traditions that worship Shiva as the supreme divinity..... This loose sect, which encompasses by far the large majority of Hindus, probably began ....
which encompasses by far the large majority of Hindusclearly means that Shaivites are a subset of Hindus.
::Here's my response that During Chola dynasty period Shivaism was the religion and not Hinduism.
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Moden day Indians and Hindutuva followers- Kindly keep the discussion within the scope of Chola's avoiding WP:POV. >>> Extorc. talk 11:12, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
::Shaivism in the modern days might be under one Hinduism but Shaivisim during Chola Rule was a separate religion. That's all we need to consider.
:::::::::Please understand the Hinduism as a word or as even a religion(a combined form) did not exits for at lease 1000 years back. The Persians called it sindhs and britishers called Hindus. Over time the Shivaism religion and Vaishnavaism religion all has become come under one religion which is what we call as Hinduism. Shivaism and Vaishnavism are older religions by itself. In fact Shivaism is pre-vedic religion. Since in the modern day Hinduism now includes Shivaism and Vaishnisvis togather then Hinduism can be called one of the oldest religion in the world because Shaivism (an old religion) is now considered under Hinduism.
Tamilpadai (
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Akshaypatill ( talk) 13:09, 9 October 2022 (UTC)The Epic and Early Puranic period, from c. 200 BCE to 500 CE, saw the classical "Golden Age" of Hinduism (c. 320-650 CE), which coincides with the Gupta Empire. In this period the six branches of Hindu philosophy evolved, namely Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedanta. Monotheistic sects like Shaivism and Vaishnavism developed during this same period through the Bhakti movement.
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The cholas belonged to Saivism as a religion. Hinduism did not exist when the latter Cholas ruled which is about 1000 years ago. The word Hindu was brought into by the British about 300 years ago. Hence please correct the religion to Saivism. 49.204.143.168 ( talk) 11:28, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
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Small suggestion, Cholas never ruled north India. So where ever the reference of north India is made it should be changed to Eastern Ghats OR South East India. Gmishra75 ( talk) 17:57, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
1. is sourced to "THE CŌḶAS" by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri (1933). 2. claims as its only source File:Rajendra map new.svg, despite substantially changing it. 3. claims to be sourced to Spencer, G. (1976). The Politics of Plunder: The Cholas in Eleventh-Century Ceylon. The Journal of Asian Studies, 35(3), 405-419. doi:10.2307/2053272 (an article which contains only a map of Sri Lanka).
2. and 3. make extraordinary vast claims for the area of influence of the Chola empire, stretching far inland in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Borneo, which have been challenged by User:Surijeal and User:User23445. User:Lipwe has repeatedly reverted these challenges without providing sources for this claimed area of influence, and despite having already shown that 2. made inaccurately expansive claims for Chola control in one area (Sri Lanka), where 1. was already correct (although I accept that the modifications to the map of Sri Lanka in 3 are more accurate). Furius ( talk) 21:36, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
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Members. Do you check with this page and page of Early Cholas. Probable user from North India simply undo the updated page.
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In official languages REMOVE sanskrit. Dont play. Warning will not be repeated!!!!!! 84.57.124.254 ( talk) 17:20, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi Guys - There is no evidence of Sanskrit or Prakrit or any other language used for official purposes. The language used for worship was Tamil. Why are you inserting Sanskrit into the Cholas? There is no source that attests that Sanskrit was ever used. No inscriptions during that time. This is irresponsible Wiki article to USURP other cultures under Sanskrit. It is an insult to the Tamil Empire. Please stop changing history. Show reliable proof and we can discuss it. Debtprograms ( talk) 13:55, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus. This discussion has petered out without any consensus (whether rough or firm). The article does not currently focused only on the "dynasty" (lineage of rulers) or "empire" (imperial period) but rather the wider Chola state/society over time. For now, the introduction can be updated to reflect the current scope of the article. If there is need for other solutions, a new move discussion or split/merger discussion can be suggested. ( non-admin closure) SilverLocust ( talk) 03:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Chola dynasty →
Chola Empire – This page is about the Political entity of the Cholas which is most definitely called the Chola Empire and not only about the lineage of the Cholas. Looking at other stably named Dyasnty-Empire page pairs, like the Mughal, Timurid, Ottoman, the empire page talks about origin, territory, administration, government, law, demographics while the dynasty page talks about family tree, succession, current heads and pretenders.
Looking at this article, this mostly fits in the Empire category. >>>
Extorc.
talk 14:31, 12 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting.
Captain Jack Sparrow (
talk) 18:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
"The Chola dynasty was a Tamil Thalassocratic empire", a what? Empire? The lead and the entire content of this article is adjusted for an empire. If you take issue with the content related to the early and later cholas, why not Split the article into dynasty and empire. @ Johnbod As I pointed out, Mughal Empire is paired with Mughal Dynasty, Ottoman Empire is paired with Ottoman Dynasty, Timurid Empire with Timurid dynasty and so on. >>> Extorc. talk 08:47, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
"The Chola Empire was a Tamil Thalassocratic empire..."or
"During the period of 1010–1153 CE, the Chola territories stretched...."which is literally talking about the empire. Most of this article talks about the empire. If you think Imperial cholas can be confused, do you think we should shift the content about the empire from this page to Imperial Cholas and name that to the Chola Empire? >>> Extorc. talk 20:33, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
This article talks about the
Early Cholas,
Medieval Cholas, and the
Later Cholas. However by looking at the sources in the article, I couldn't find any direct link between the two. The early cholas and the medieval/later cholas were 2 different kingdoms/empires that existed in different eras. Combining them into the same article makes it seam as if they were a continuous kingdom, which clearly is not true.
I suggest renaming this article to "Chola Empire" and only talking about the mideval and later rulers starting from
Vijayalaya Chola
I also suggest improving the
Early Cholas article prehaps renaming it to "Chola Kingdom" and making it resemble an article for a kingdom by adding an infobox and moving all content related to the early cholas there.
We could also create a master article named "house of Cholas" or "Chola Dynasty" and talking more about the dynasty itself there.
This would make it more clear and accurate to the reader
SKAG123 (
talk) 23:09, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Have noticed attempts to insert " Tamilakam" in the lead sentence, a term which is not meaningful to the average reader and is not found in the majority of WP:TERTIARY sources.
Den Store Danske, Britannica, Great Catalan Encyclopedia, Great Russian Encyclopedia, Treccani, The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Most of these use south/southern/south-eastern India as a descriptive and nowhere is Tamilakam to be found here. The lead should not diverge from what the majority of sources follow.
Do note that we already mention in the para below the "three crowned kings" part along with Tamilakam and that should suffice (though the Tamilakam article is perhaps in need of renaming to a more descriptive term).
@ Jeromenada: We follow sources and not what one thinks is right and the sources clearly stand against your attempts at WP:LEADFIXing. Gotitbro ( talk) 14:32, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
I don't think there exist a region or country called India when Chola dynasty exist. The entire region of southern India remained as a Tamilakam as mentioned in Sangam literature. Guess word Tamilakam apt better than the word Southern India for the Chola dynasty. Jeromenada ( talk) 19:32, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
An editor has requested that Medieval Cholas be moved to Chola Empire, which currently redirects to this page. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. SilverLocust 💬 23:47, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
Since this Article is about the Dynasty as a Whole, I am planning on moving detailed information about the Imperial Cholas to Chola Empire, and replacing it with a more brief summery. SKAG123 ( talk) 02:23, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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Chola claim descendant from Suryavanshi [1] [2] Aley star ( talk) 12:19, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
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I think /info/en/?search=Battle_of_Takkolam should be mentioned briefly in the page or linked at its bottom.
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The Chola empire never had full control of the island at any point in history, and this is already discussed in a large amount of literature published on the matter, including primary literature cited on the page. Spencer, G. W. The Politics of Plunder: The Cholas in Eleventh-Century Ceylon. The Journal of Asian Studies 1976, 35 (3), 405–419. https://doi.org/10.2307/2053272.
According to Spencer, “Under Rajendra Chola I, perhaps the most aggressive king of his line, Chola raids were launched southward from Rajarattha into Rohana. By his fifth year, Rajendra claimed to have completely conquered Ceylon, a claim that has led some historians to assert that Rajendra "completed" the conquest Rajaraja had begun. But the Cholas never really consolidated their control over southern Ceylon, which in any case lacked large and prosperous settlements to tempt long-term Chola occupation. Thus, under Rajendra, Chola predatory expansion in Ceylon began to reach a point of diminishing returns”
Moreover, Spencer talks about the continuous line of Sinhalese kings during the Chola period in the Rohana kingdom. “Ironically, the Chola settlements in the north in turn became targets of attack and plunder, partly because the Sinhalese "enemy"-remnants of the royal court and some chiefs who supported it were now more dispersed and capable of organizing guerrilla resistance. Since members of the royal house of Ceylon were natural rallying-points for counterattacks, the Cholas were anxious to seize them. The Culavamsa admits that Rajendra's forces captured King Mahinda and transported him to India, where he eventually died in exile.47 But Prince Kassapa, son of Mahinda, hid in Rohana, where Chola forces vainly searched for him. Kassapa assumed the title of Vikkamabahu I and ruled" in Rohana for several years (c. I029-Io4I)48 while attempting to organize a campaign of liberation and unification””
Thus it is clear that Cholar only had an influence on the Rohana kingdom of the south of Sri Lanka, not direct control. Lipwe ( talk) 03:37, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
New details:
Chola only had complete control of the Anuradhapura Kingdom, while the Principality of Ruhuna (Ruhunu Rata) was still under Sinhalese kings. States of the Principality of Malaya is not clear. The following map shows the area under each administrative unit. The corrected map only included the Principality of Ruhuna (Ruhunu Rata) as the area of influence, while the entire Principality of Malaya was put under Chola control, even though this might not be the case.
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 ( talk · contribs) 22:10, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Chola dynasty → Chola Empire – Enter the correct name please J.k.r0012 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:40, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
User:Tamilpadai You are in disagreement with multiple editors. Discuss your concerns here first instead of reverting again and again. Akshaypatill ( talk) 06:13, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
While it has always been recognized that Shaivism, together with Vaishnavism, constitutes one of the major traditions of Hinduism, it has become increasingly clear that Shaivism, in fact, played a key role in the development of Brahmanical Hinduism.....During the early medieval period, Shaivism became the dominant religious tradition of many Hindu regional kingdoms...
-Shaivism is the formal name for the group of traditions that worship Shiva as the supreme divinity..... This loose sect, which encompasses by far the large majority of Hindus, probably began ....
which encompasses by far the large majority of Hindusclearly means that Shaivites are a subset of Hindus.
::Here's my response that During Chola dynasty period Shivaism was the religion and not Hinduism.
Sources
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Tamilpadai (
talk) 10:41, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Moden day Indians and Hindutuva followers- Kindly keep the discussion within the scope of Chola's avoiding WP:POV. >>> Extorc. talk 11:12, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
::Shaivism in the modern days might be under one Hinduism but Shaivisim during Chola Rule was a separate religion. That's all we need to consider.
:::::::::Please understand the Hinduism as a word or as even a religion(a combined form) did not exits for at lease 1000 years back. The Persians called it sindhs and britishers called Hindus. Over time the Shivaism religion and Vaishnavaism religion all has become come under one religion which is what we call as Hinduism. Shivaism and Vaishnavism are older religions by itself. In fact Shivaism is pre-vedic religion. Since in the modern day Hinduism now includes Shivaism and Vaishnisvis togather then Hinduism can be called one of the oldest religion in the world because Shaivism (an old religion) is now considered under Hinduism.
Tamilpadai (
talk) 12:18, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Akshaypatill ( talk) 13:09, 9 October 2022 (UTC)The Epic and Early Puranic period, from c. 200 BCE to 500 CE, saw the classical "Golden Age" of Hinduism (c. 320-650 CE), which coincides with the Gupta Empire. In this period the six branches of Hindu philosophy evolved, namely Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedanta. Monotheistic sects like Shaivism and Vaishnavism developed during this same period through the Bhakti movement.
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The cholas belonged to Saivism as a religion. Hinduism did not exist when the latter Cholas ruled which is about 1000 years ago. The word Hindu was brought into by the British about 300 years ago. Hence please correct the religion to Saivism. 49.204.143.168 ( talk) 11:28, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
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Small suggestion, Cholas never ruled north India. So where ever the reference of north India is made it should be changed to Eastern Ghats OR South East India. Gmishra75 ( talk) 17:57, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
1. is sourced to "THE CŌḶAS" by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri (1933). 2. claims as its only source File:Rajendra map new.svg, despite substantially changing it. 3. claims to be sourced to Spencer, G. (1976). The Politics of Plunder: The Cholas in Eleventh-Century Ceylon. The Journal of Asian Studies, 35(3), 405-419. doi:10.2307/2053272 (an article which contains only a map of Sri Lanka).
2. and 3. make extraordinary vast claims for the area of influence of the Chola empire, stretching far inland in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Borneo, which have been challenged by User:Surijeal and User:User23445. User:Lipwe has repeatedly reverted these challenges without providing sources for this claimed area of influence, and despite having already shown that 2. made inaccurately expansive claims for Chola control in one area (Sri Lanka), where 1. was already correct (although I accept that the modifications to the map of Sri Lanka in 3 are more accurate). Furius ( talk) 21:36, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
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In official languages REMOVE sanskrit. Dont play. Warning will not be repeated!!!!!! 84.57.124.254 ( talk) 17:20, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi Guys - There is no evidence of Sanskrit or Prakrit or any other language used for official purposes. The language used for worship was Tamil. Why are you inserting Sanskrit into the Cholas? There is no source that attests that Sanskrit was ever used. No inscriptions during that time. This is irresponsible Wiki article to USURP other cultures under Sanskrit. It is an insult to the Tamil Empire. Please stop changing history. Show reliable proof and we can discuss it. Debtprograms ( talk) 13:55, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus. This discussion has petered out without any consensus (whether rough or firm). The article does not currently focused only on the "dynasty" (lineage of rulers) or "empire" (imperial period) but rather the wider Chola state/society over time. For now, the introduction can be updated to reflect the current scope of the article. If there is need for other solutions, a new move discussion or split/merger discussion can be suggested. ( non-admin closure) SilverLocust ( talk) 03:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Chola dynasty →
Chola Empire – This page is about the Political entity of the Cholas which is most definitely called the Chola Empire and not only about the lineage of the Cholas. Looking at other stably named Dyasnty-Empire page pairs, like the Mughal, Timurid, Ottoman, the empire page talks about origin, territory, administration, government, law, demographics while the dynasty page talks about family tree, succession, current heads and pretenders.
Looking at this article, this mostly fits in the Empire category. >>>
Extorc.
talk 14:31, 12 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting.
Captain Jack Sparrow (
talk) 18:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
"The Chola dynasty was a Tamil Thalassocratic empire", a what? Empire? The lead and the entire content of this article is adjusted for an empire. If you take issue with the content related to the early and later cholas, why not Split the article into dynasty and empire. @ Johnbod As I pointed out, Mughal Empire is paired with Mughal Dynasty, Ottoman Empire is paired with Ottoman Dynasty, Timurid Empire with Timurid dynasty and so on. >>> Extorc. talk 08:47, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
"The Chola Empire was a Tamil Thalassocratic empire..."or
"During the period of 1010–1153 CE, the Chola territories stretched...."which is literally talking about the empire. Most of this article talks about the empire. If you think Imperial cholas can be confused, do you think we should shift the content about the empire from this page to Imperial Cholas and name that to the Chola Empire? >>> Extorc. talk 20:33, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
This article talks about the
Early Cholas,
Medieval Cholas, and the
Later Cholas. However by looking at the sources in the article, I couldn't find any direct link between the two. The early cholas and the medieval/later cholas were 2 different kingdoms/empires that existed in different eras. Combining them into the same article makes it seam as if they were a continuous kingdom, which clearly is not true.
I suggest renaming this article to "Chola Empire" and only talking about the mideval and later rulers starting from
Vijayalaya Chola
I also suggest improving the
Early Cholas article prehaps renaming it to "Chola Kingdom" and making it resemble an article for a kingdom by adding an infobox and moving all content related to the early cholas there.
We could also create a master article named "house of Cholas" or "Chola Dynasty" and talking more about the dynasty itself there.
This would make it more clear and accurate to the reader
SKAG123 (
talk) 23:09, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Have noticed attempts to insert " Tamilakam" in the lead sentence, a term which is not meaningful to the average reader and is not found in the majority of WP:TERTIARY sources.
Den Store Danske, Britannica, Great Catalan Encyclopedia, Great Russian Encyclopedia, Treccani, The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Most of these use south/southern/south-eastern India as a descriptive and nowhere is Tamilakam to be found here. The lead should not diverge from what the majority of sources follow.
Do note that we already mention in the para below the "three crowned kings" part along with Tamilakam and that should suffice (though the Tamilakam article is perhaps in need of renaming to a more descriptive term).
@ Jeromenada: We follow sources and not what one thinks is right and the sources clearly stand against your attempts at WP:LEADFIXing. Gotitbro ( talk) 14:32, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
I don't think there exist a region or country called India when Chola dynasty exist. The entire region of southern India remained as a Tamilakam as mentioned in Sangam literature. Guess word Tamilakam apt better than the word Southern India for the Chola dynasty. Jeromenada ( talk) 19:32, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
An editor has requested that Medieval Cholas be moved to Chola Empire, which currently redirects to this page. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. SilverLocust 💬 23:47, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
Since this Article is about the Dynasty as a Whole, I am planning on moving detailed information about the Imperial Cholas to Chola Empire, and replacing it with a more brief summery. SKAG123 ( talk) 02:23, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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