Sublime

Krishna Deva Raya.

But for Rajaraja the path to the throne was strewn with the proverbial thorns.

Devipuram—“The Goddess’s Abode”—the temple complex that Guruji had spent more than three decades building up from almost nothing in the rural wilds of eastern India.

Ashoka called himself devanampiya, the beloved of the Gods, while Rajaraja lent his name to the main deity, Rajarajeswara, of the Thanjavur temple, apt names for the union of the sacred with the secular.

Rajaraja assembled a marauding army, no less audacious, to build the first imperial empire of the South after reducing several cities to ashes and charred bones.

The Proto-Indo-European vocabulary contained a compound word (*weik-potis) that referred to a village chief, an individual who held power within a residential group; another root (*re-) referred to another kind of powerful officer. This second root was later used for king in Italic (rēx), Celtic (rīx), and Old Indic (raj-), but it might originally