Netunceliyan I
| Netunceliyan I | |||||
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| Pandyan Ruler | |||||
| Predecessor | Unknown | ||||
| Successor | Pudappandiyan | ||||
| Spouse | Kopperundevi | ||||
| Issue | Pudappandiyan | ||||
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| House | Pandyan | ||||
| Religion | [citation needed] Jainism | ||||
| Pandya dynasty |
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| Early Pandya polity |
| Early Medieval Pandyas |
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Netunceliyan I[a] (Tamil: நெடுஞ்செழியன், was an early Pandyan king. He was titled the Āriyappaṭai-kaṭanta Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ. The title signifies his defeat of the "northern Aryans".[1]
Archaeological evidence
[edit]According to Mahadevan, the Mangulam inscription possibly mentions the names of workers of Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ I, a Pandyan king of the Sangam era, who made stone beds for Jain monks.[2]
In popular culture
[edit]Literature
[edit]Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ is the Pandyan king appearing in Ilango Adigal's Tamil epic Cilappatikaram. In the story, he dies of a broken heart along with his queen-consort Kopperundevi after Kannagi confronts him for the unjust execution of her husband Kovalan.[3][4]
He is also featured in Tamil-language textbooks, such as those released by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Language | Actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Kannagi | Tamil | Unidentified |
| 1964 | Poompuhar | Tamil | O. A. K. Thevar |
| 1968 | Kodungallooramma | Malayalam | Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair
(credited as Pandya Rajavu) |
| 2016 | Paththini | Sinhala | Ravindra Randeniya |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.
Further reading
[edit]- Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. p. 115.
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