Nedunjeliyan I

Nedunjeliyan I

Pandyan Ruler

Reign

c. 270 BCE

Predecessor

Unknown

Successor

Pudappandiyan

Spouse

Kopperundevi

Issue

Pudappandiyan

Names
Aariyap Padai Kadantha Nedunj Cheliyan

House

Pandyan

Religion

Saivism^{[citation needed]}

Pandya dynasty
Early Pandya polity
Koon Pandiyan Nedunjeliyan I Nedunjeliyan II
Early Medieval Pandyas
Kadungon (c. 590–620)/(c. 560–590) Maravarman Avanichulamani (c. 620–645)/(c. 590–620) Cheliyan Chendan (c. 654–670)/(c. 620–650) Arikesari Maravarman (Parankusan) (c. 670–700)/(c. 650–700) Ko Chadaiyan Ranadhira (c. 700–730) Maravarman Rajasimha I (c. 730–765)/(c. 730–768) Srimara Srivallabha (c. 815–862) Varaguna II (c. 862–880)/(c. 862–885) Maravarman Rajasimha III (c. 900–915)

Nedunjeliyan I^[a] (r. c. 270 BCE) (Tamil: நெடுஞ்செழியன்) was a Pandya king. He earned the legendary title of Arya Padai Kadantha Nedunchezhiyan, signifying his triumphant conquest over the Aryan Army.^[1]

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Archaeological evidence

His name is present in the Mangulam inscriptions of 3rd century BCE. The inscriptions mentions that workers of Nedunjeliyan I, a Pandyan king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks.^[2]

In popular culture

Nedunjeliyan I was also the Pandya king of the epic Silappatikaram authored by the Sangam poet Ilango Adigal who later died of a broken heart along with his queen consort Kopperundevi.^[3]^[4]

He is portrayed by O. A. K. Thevar in the film Poompuhar (1964).

Notes

^ Also transliterated as Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ. (ISO 15919)

References

^ Kavitha, S. S. (19 September 2012). "About a secular past". The Hindu.
^ Umamaheshwari, R. (25 January 2018). Reading History with the Tamil Jainas: A Study on Identity, Memory and Marginalisation. Springer. ISBN 978-81-322-3756-3.
^ Umamaheshwari, R. (25 January 2018). Reading History with the Tamil Jainas: A Study on Identity, Memory and Marginalisation. Springer. ISBN 978-81-322-3756-3.
^ Mahadevan, Iravatham (2003). Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01227-1.

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