I spin further yarns of real RR story based upon PS.
Sundara cholas later days see Aditha karikala(AK) and RR being popular with people.Uthama chola(UC)isnt popular.Sundara wants his descendents to come to power,so he makes AK prince,which infuriates UC.He marries influential sitrarasar's daughters like paluvettarayas daughter and stakes claim for becoming king.Sembian devi supports UC.RR supports karikala.
Karikala carries lots of mass appeal since he had fought in wars from age 12.RR also has mass appeal due to his ceylon war,but it is secondary to that of karikala.Karikala is also older than RR,so RR supports him fully.And sundara chola also refuses to consider UC,since karikala was already crowned as the next king.
Then UC gets help of pandyas and gets karikala killed.Then chaos reigns in.Sundara chola is in death bed.UC blames karikala's murder on vanthya thevan,husband of kunthavai.Many sitrarasars support UC,due to paluvettarayar.Sembian ma devi also leads a kitchen coup to support UC.Sundara is weakened by karikala's death.So a compromise is reached and uthama gets crowned.
Vanthiya thevan is freed as part of compromise.RR agrees to UC being crowned to free his sister's husband from death.Then he realizes that UC killed karikala.He decides to have revenge.He plays politics.He follows formula of UC and marries many influential sitrasar's daughters.
UC is an ineffecient king,who doesnt invade other countries.Since he was friends with pandyas he doesnt invade them.This slowly creates public anger,since cholas were valiant and couldnt imagine a docile king.They perceive RR as their saviour and openly start supporting RR.
RR also doesnt take part in wars or invasions,but builds public support.His son rajendra is born and people love Rajendra since he was valiant at an young age itself.Maybe Rajendra resembles even Karikala.UC plays many tricks to defeat RR,but RR defeats it easily.Uthama isnt such a skilful politician and also people seeing how he patronised karikala's killers dont trust him.
Then when uthama became very weak politically,RR gains public support.Uthamas son also is not very valiant and people hate him.After uthama's death RR ascends to throne and realizes all dreams of his brother karikala.
I find many similarities between karikala and Rajendra chola.Had karikala been king he would have been even greater than RR.Who knows?
You are getting totally enangled in your own yarn.All that yarn that you have spun takes place after UC ascends the throne. Kalki has dealt with the period immly preceding UC's ascension when RR himself is young. All the manipulations and political marriage necessarily come later and cannot be dealt with at this stage. Do you have any problem in understanding that.
I get the feeling that you somehow want to show Kalki in a lesser light but Kalki is too good for you.
Dear Sampath RR was a co regent with Uthamachola . > > RR also doesnt take part in wars or invasions,but builds public > support. What about Pandya invasion...Eelam invasion....Kanthalur salai....and the distant islands which were conquered sir???
> I find many similarities between karikala and Rajendra chola.Had > karikala been king he would have been even greater than RR.Who knows?
One can always speculate....being a warrior is just one part of being a great monarch Rajaraja was not great becaus he was a great warrior alone...He is hailed a great monarch because he was a great strategist...a great administartor... a great builder.... a great man....