A successful invasion of Ceylon permitted assignment of Singhalese revenues to the Saiva great pagoda of Rajarajesvara, which Rajaraja I built at Tanjore, the masterpiece of baroque Dravidian architecture. He also endowed a Buddhist monastery built at Negapatam by a king of Srivijaya (Sumatra).
Chola Virarajendra defeated the Chalukyas and gave his daughter to Vikramaditya VI. He founded a vedic college and a hospital. His two sons fell into conflict and extinguished their line by assassination (1074).
The Chalukya-Chola dynasty, founded by Rajendra, son and grandson of Chola princesses, king of Vengi (b. 1070), who took the vacant throne of Kanchi (1074) and thenceforth ruled Vengi through a viceroy. His authority was recognized by the Ganga king of Kalinga.
Vikramaditya VI of Kalyani began a new era in place of the Saka era, but with small success. He built temples to Vishnu, but made gifts also to two Buddhist monasteries that must have been among the last in the south to withstand Hindu reaction and absorption. Bilhana of Kashmir, in return for hospitality, a blue parasol, and an elephant, wrote the Vikramankacharita in praise of his host.
