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{{short description|10th century Indian emperor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox Royalty
|image=Aathithiya karikala cholan.png
|birth_place = [[Tirukoilur]]
|death_date = [[969 AD]]
|religion =[[Hinduism]]
|father = [[Sundara Chola]]
|mother = Uttām Māhadēvī
|coronation = [[Raja Raja Chola I]]<br /> [[Kundavai Pirattiyar]]
|cor-type = Siblings
}}
{{Chola history}}

'''Aditha Karikalan''' or '''Aditya II''' was a [[Chola]] [[prince]] who lived in the [[10th century]] in [[India]].<ref>A Topographical List of Inscriptions in the [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Kerala]] states: [[Thanjavur district]] By T. Mahalingam</ref> He was born in [[Tirukoilur]] and was the eldest son of [[Parantaka Chola II|Sundara Chola]]. He was the elder brother of [[Rajaraja Chola I]] and [[Kundavai Pirāttiyār|Kundavai]]. He had title as ''Virapandiyan Thalai Konda Koparakesari Varman Karikalan''.<ref>Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. (1955). ''A History of South India'', OUP, New Delhi (Reprinted 2002)</ref>

He led the Chola expedition against the [[Pandyas]] and defeated the Pandya king Veerapandyan at the battle of Chevur. He killed Veerapandyan after chasing him on the banks of [[Vaigai river]]. Aditya was made the co-regent and heir apparent to the Chola throne even though [[Uttama Chola]], the son of [[Gandaraditya|Gandaraditya Chola]], had more right to throne. He was planned and murdered by the associates of Veerapandyan in revenge for the defeat. Aditya was succeeded by Uttama Chola.<ref>Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. (1935). ''The ChōĻas'', University of Madras, Madras (Reprinted 1984)</ref> As per epigraphs, the inquiry into the death was completed in the second year of [[Rajaraja Chola I]]'s reign and the lands of certain officials were confiscated for their complicity in the murder of "Karikala Chola who took the head of the Pandya".<ref name="Epigraphia Indica, Volume 21, page 167">''Epigraphia Indica, Volume 21, page 167''</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Early Chola Temples: Parantaka I to Rajaraja I, A.D. 907-985|author=S. R. Balasubrahmanyam|publisher=Orient Longman, 1971|page=76}}</ref>

According to [[Archaeology|archaeologist]] [[Kudavayil Balasubramanian]], "[[Dr K T Tirunavukkarasu]] in his collection of historical essays titled "Arunmozhi Aiyvu Thogudi", comprehensively ruled out Madurantaka Uttama's role in Aditya Karikala's murder. In the said article, basing his view on a number of historical data points, Dr Tirunavukkarasu has gone on to explain that there was a delay in apprehending the perpetrators immediately thereafter and it was only during Raja Raja I's second regnal year that the culprits were brought to book and given that the assassins were Brahmins"
.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Udayarkudi Inscription – An In-depth Assessment ( Translated article)|url=http://guruguha.org/blog/2018/11/11/udayarkudi-inscription-an-in-depth-assessment-translated-article/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612075802/http://guruguha.org/blog/2018/11/11/udayarkudi-inscription-an-in-depth-assessment-translated-article/|archive-date=12 June 2020|access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref> Suspicions were pointed to Uttama Chola but confiscations of land belonging to culprits started before Raja Raja's period suggesting that Uttama Chola did not spare the plotters. Among the punished were Ravidasan, Soman and Parameshwaran who were all government officials and brothers born to a brahmin family.<ref name=southindiahistory>{{cite book|title=Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Volume 18|author=South Indian History Congress|year=1999|page=157}}</ref><ref name=Annals>{{cite book|title=Annals of Oriental Research, Volume 25|year=1975|page=600}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Early Indian Land Grants and State Economy|year=1988|page=175}}</ref> They avenged for the decapitation of Veerapandyan by Aditha Karikalan. According to Kudavayil Balasubramanian, claims that Raja Raja would have spared the plotters if they were Brahmins sound absurd because Cholas would not show lenience on account of anyone's caste. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/Who-killed-Aditya-Karikalan/article16366706.ece|title=Who killed Aditya Karikalan?|newspaper=The Hindu|date=15 April 2010}}</ref>

==Books on Aditya Karikalan==

The conspiracy surrounding his death is dealt with in the popular Tamil novel [[Ponniyin Selvan]] written by [[Kalki Krishnamurthy|Kalki]] and very clearly and elaborately described in the Tamil novel Udayar written by [[Balakumaran]].

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