Samara Vijayatunggavarman was the Maharaja of

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from 1045 CE.

Evidence

was thought to be destroyed by

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during the attack in 1025. However, in

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, a

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archaeologist named S. Puranavitana discovered two inscriptions; the Madigiriya inscription and Bolanda inscription.

Madigiriya inscription

This inscription was written during the short reign of Mahinda VI.

Bolanda inscription

This inscription wrote about the story of Adipada Mahendra who had been defeated in a battle. He fled his land and gained protection at

which was ruled by

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at that time. Adipada Mahendra had a son named Mahendra and a princess who married

. From the marriage, the Maharaja had two children,

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and Samara Vijayatunggavarman. Mahendra later married with Samara's princess. The inscription also wrote about

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's murder.

History

launched an attack on

and captured Maharaja

in 1025. Sri Deva took the leadership of

from

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and restored balance in the government. According to a theory proposed by Puranavitana, in 1044,

was supposedly assassinated when he visited

by a Srivijayan prince called Purendara as per the orders of Samara. On the contrary, according to South Indian epigraphs and records, Rajendra Chola I died in Brahmadesam now a part of

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district in

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, India. This information is recorded in an inscription of his son,

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which states that Rajendra Chola's queen Viramadeviyar committed

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upon Rajendra's death and her remains were interred in the same tomb as Rajendra Chola I in Brahmadesam. It adds that the queen's brother who was a general in Rajendra's army set up a watershed at the same place in memory of his sister.

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Bibliography

* S. Paranavitana (1966) "Ceylon and Śrī Vijaya, in Artibus Asiae. Supplementum, Vol. 23, Essays Offered to G.H. Luce by His Colleagues and Friends in Honour of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Volume 1:Papers on Asian History, Religion, Languages, Literature, Music Folkfore and Anthropology" Artibus Asiae Publishers Indonesian Hindu monarchs Srivijaya 11th-century monarchs in Asia 11th-century Indonesian people