Original: Keay , p 215 The power of the new empire was proclaimed to the eastern world by the celebrated expedition to the Ganges which Rajendra Chola I undertook and by the overthrow after an unprecedented naval war of the maritime empire of Srivijaya , as well as by the repeated embassies to China .
Simplified: The Chola territories stretched from the islands of the Maldives in the South to as far North as the banks of the Ganges River in Bangladesh .