That was a very nice debate ...Its unfortunate that no one took it on...
Very nice Rajaraja who created a great empire and new way of tamil governance
or hIs son who achieved the greatest naval glory among all indian rulers
Each one has good points to be judged as the best
RR stabilised the chola rule then moved on to consolidate his position as the supreme Tamil emperor and then diverted his attention to EEalam and the maldives and lakshadeep...
Created new revenue systems introduced meikeerthi...
Took tamil architechture to greatest heights which the world admires even today with the Brahadeeswara Temple...
Of course He had the able shoulders of his young son supporting him in all these victories...
Rajendra's reign the pinnacle of chola or tamil era....the great chola empire extending from the narmada to malaysia,burma and srilanka..
The king's conquered the king of bengal and earned the epithet Gangai konda cholan....
He got the Rathina haaram and crown of the pandya kings from Eealam...
Send a naval expedition to kadaram and conquered kadaram to earn kadaram konda cholan...
created a everlasting impression by founding a city and temple in gangai konda cholapuram..
I think i will consider RR great because he created an empire from a kingdom which was threatened by both internal and external enemies....
Rajendra was coached and trained by RR as he was his co regent and he inherited an empire and made it greater...
RR created Brahadeeswara temple Rajendra followed suit RR created land measuring and revenue system