you will see that a king usually had a council of ministers—often aristocratic men intermarried with the royal family. But the Chola administrative structure was not just the royal family ...

The emergence of the Chola power from obscurity, its rise to an important position and its conflicts, first with the Rashtrakutas from beyond the Tungabhadra and later with their successor ...

Another ‘exceedingly rare’ 4.32 gm gold Kahavanu coin (a medieval currency from Sri Lanka) of Rajendra Chola I of Chola Empire with Nagari legend ‘Sri Rajendra’ is part of the auction.