Nedunjeliyan I

Nedunjcheliyan I (c. 270 BCE) (Tamil: நெடுஞ்செழியன்) was a Pandya king. He has been given with the title Aariya Padai kadantha Nedunjezhiya Pandiyan (A Pandyan King, who defeated the Aryan intrusion). Nedunjcheliyan I was also the Pandya king of the epic Silappatikaram authored by Tamil Jain Ilango Adigal who later died of a broken heart along with his queen consort Kopperundevi.[1][2] Nedunchezhiyan I patronized Jainism.

Nedunjeliyan I
1st Pandyan Ruler
Reign270 BCE
SuccessorPudappandiyan
SpouseKopperundevi
IssuePudappandiyan
Full name
Aariyap Padai Kadantha Nedunj Cheliyan
HousePandyan
ReligionJainism
Pandya dynasty
Early Pandya polity
Koon Pandiyan
Pudappandiyan
Mudukudumi Paruvaludhi
Nedunjeliyan I
Nedunjeliyan II
Nan Maran
Nedunjeliyan III
Maran Valudi
Kadalan Valuthi
Musiri Mutriya Cheliyan
Ukkirap Peruvaludi
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)
Jatila Parantaka Nedunjadaiyan/
Varaguna I (c. 756–815)/(c. 768–815)
Srimara Srivallabha (c. 815–862)
Varaguna II (c. 862–880)/(c. 862–885)
Parantaka Viranarayana (c. 880–900)/(c. 860–905)
Maravarman Rajasimha II (c. 900–920)/(c. 905–920)

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

See also

Notes

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  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.

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