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 RAJARAJA THE GREAT 379 engraved with the story of his victories, stands to this day as a memorial of his victorious career. Although himself a worshipper of Siva, he was suf- ficiently h'beral-minded to endow a Burmese Buddhist temple at the port of Negapatam, where two such temples continued to be the object of foreign pilgrim- ages until the fifteenth century. One of them, probably that endowed by Rajaraja, survived in a ruinous condi- tion until 1867, when the remains of it were pulled down by the Jesuit Fathers and utilized for the construction of Christian buildings. Rajendra-Choladeva I, the son and successor of Rajaraja, continued his father's ambitious career, and added still more territory to the Chola dominions. He spent a long reign in war with his neighbours, as be- fitted a self-respecting king, and carried his arms far to the north, even into Orissa and Bengal. He did not neglect the navy, and sent an expedition by sea against a place called Kadaram, situated somewhere in Lower Burma or the Indo-Chinese peninsula. His successor, Rajadhiraja, an equally vigorous fighter, emphasized his claim to paramount power by reviving the ancient and costly rite of the horse-sac- rifice, or asvamedJia. In the year 1059 A. D. he was killed at the battle of Koppam in Mysore, while fighting the Chalukyas. The war in which this battle occurred was waged with great bitterness, owing to the religious animosity between the combatants. The next king worthy of notice was Rajendra-Chola- deva II, son-in-law of the first of that name, and a