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Ilandiraiyan

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91:. When the boy grew up the princess wanted to send her son to the Chola kingdom. So she entrusted the prince to a merchant who dealt in woolen blankets called Kambala Chetty when his ship stopped in the island of Manipallavam. During the voyage to the Chola kingdom, the ship was wrecked due to rough weather and the boy was lost. He was later found washed ashore with a Tondai twig (creeper) around his leg. So he came to be called Tondaiman Ilam Tiraiyan meaning 95:. When he grew up the northern part of the Chola kingdom was entrusted to him and the area he governed came to be called Tondaimandalam after him. He is considered by some scholars to be the progenitor of the Pallava dynasty and the dynasty he founded took its name after the native place of his mother, that is Manipallavam. 404: 157:
Ilandiraiyan was also a poet himself with four of his songs still extant. One of them is on the importance of personal character and its benefits on good rule. Ode 185 of the
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The Early History of the Vellar Basin, with Special Reference to the Irukkuvels of Kodumbalur. A Study in Vellala Origin and Early History
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Scholar M. Arokiaswami identifies Tondaiman Ilandiraiyan with king Adondai Chakravarthi, the legendary figure who is referred to in the
118:, Ilandiraiyan ascended the throne of Kanchi during the reign of the Chola king Karikalan and was probably, a feudatory of the latter. 356: 427: 383: 110:(cave) and also it is known that Tiraiyan was the son of a Chola prince who married the Naga princess, Pilivalai by entering the 131: 159: 87:, a son was born to the Chola king Killi and the naga princess Pilivalai of Jaffna, the daughter of king Valaivanan of 141:. He advises "poets seeking rewards" to go to the court of Tondaiman Ilandiraiyan, "the great patron of bards". The 457: 63: 346: 452: 342: 115: 399: 66:, the Pallavas were natives of Tondaimandalam and the name Pallava is identical with the word Tondaiyar. 114:
in Nagapattinam. So that Tiraiyan was the son of Killivalavan is not without force". According to
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eulogising Ilandiraiyan as well as providing a mythical origin for the Tondaiman clan.
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Manimekalai: Dancer with Magic Bowl : Buddhist Epic in Tamil (second Century AD)
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A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar
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History of the Tamils : from the earliest times to 600 A.D.
351:, New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, pp. 388–405, 102:(historical poems in honor of Chola kings) written by poet 207: 205: 192: 190: 188: 50:. Ilandiraiyan is referred to in the literature of the 46:. He is traditionally regarded as the founder of the 62:
and was known as 'Tondaman'. According to historian
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Index

Adondai
Kanchipuram
Early Chola
Karikala
Pallava dynasty
Sangam period
Pathupattu
Tondaimandalam
S. Krishnaswami Aiyengar
Mackenzie Manuscripts
Manimekalai
Manipallavam
Ottakoothar
P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar
Uruttiragannanar
Paṭṭiṉappālai
Perumpāṇāṟṟuppaṭai
akaval
metre
Puṟanāṉūṟu
Iyengar 1995



Sastri 1961


Ramaswamy 2007
Iyengar 1995
Zvelebil 1974

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