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Chola Empire's Anuradhapura War and the Sacred Tooth Relic
In this episode of The Chola Empire, Lucas and Luna explore the violent 11th-century conflict between the Cholas and the Sinhalese kingdom of Anuradhapura. When Rajaraja Chola I invaded Sri Lanka around 993 CE, he sacked the ancient capital and seized the most prized Buddhist relic in the island — the Sacred Tooth of the Buddha. Lucas walks us through the political background: the Anuradhapura king Mahinda V's flight to Rohana, the Chola establishment of a capital at Polonnaruva, and the 40-year occupation that followed. But the heart of the conversation is the Tooth Relic itself — what…
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