Question

What was the period of rule of Kulottunga I?
(A) 1020-1030 A.D
(B) 1030-1040 A.D
(C) 1070-1020 A.D
(D) 1040-1050 A.D

Answer 1

Hint: As we know that the last phase of Chola history begins with the accession of Kulottunga I, a Chalukya-Chola prince, to the throne at Gangaikonda Cholapuram. It is a weird pattern of destiny that the mighty Chola Empire, that bestrode sort of a Colossus the Southern peninsula and even the lands across the seas, should have had three successive generations of great kings, the last comprising three brilliant brothers, although soldiers and able rulers, but then that two of them should have died without male successors and the third left a short lived one.

Complete Solution:
In this question let us talk about Kulottunga I.
As we know that the wisdom of Kulottunga I was from 1070 to 1020 AD. As we know Rajadhiraja I apparently had no male progeny to succeed him to the Chola throne, and Rajamahendra, crown prince for three years under Rajendra II, predeceased the father. The son of Vira Rajendra, Adhira-jendra, died in confusing circumstances after he had succeeded his father. Due to which Dame Fortune suddenly scowled on it. Vira Rajendra consolidated his position, and a succession of Wars kept him busy. As a farsighted ruler, he saw the wisdom of building up alliances with his erstwhile enemies to keep his frontiers free of war or the threat of it. He gave one of his daughters in marriage to Vikramaditya VI of the western Chalukyas and by this alliance he wrested from somesvara II, the hostile Suzerain of Kalyani, half of the Chalukya Empire for his son-in law thus, in one stroke, he weakened that empire and ensured a friendly neighbor on his north western borders.

So, the correct option is the option 1070-1020 A.D

Note: As we know that the closing years of his reign, by these diplomatic marital alliances, he had consolidated the empire, and all was set for a grand epoch, when the cruel hand of fate struck the empire.