(a) Kulottunga I was the Chola Monarch who gave complete freedom to Sri Lanka and got his daughter married to the Simhala prince. Kulottunga Chola was an11th century monarch of the Chola Empire. The literally meaning of Kulottunga is ‘the exalter of his race’. He did not belong to the mainline of Chola, but was rather a prince of the Chalukya dynasty.