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| succession = 1st [[Pandyan dynasty|Pandyan Ruler]]<br />
| reign = 270 BCE<br />
| predecessor = <br />
| successor = Pudappandiyan<br />
| issue = Pudappandiyan<br />
| spouse = Kopperundevi<br />
| full name = Aariyap Padai Kadantha Nedunj Cheliyan<br />
| house = [[Pandyan dynasty|Pandyan]]<br />
|religion=[[Saivism]]}}<br />
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'''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 Great Poet]] [[Ilango Adigal]] who later died of a [[broken heart]] along with his queen consort Kopperundevi.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Umamaheshwari|first=R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRxJDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA43&dq=Mangulam+inscription+jain&hl=en|title=Reading History with the Tamil Jainas: A Study on Identity, Memory and Marginalisation|date=2018-01-25|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-81-322-3756-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mahadevan|first=Iravatham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZBkAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mangulam+inscription+jain&q=Mangulam+inscription+jain&hl=en|title=Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.|date=2003|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-01227-1|language=en}}</ref><br />
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His name is present in the [[Mangulam]] inscriptions of 3rd century BCE. The inscriptions mentions that workers of ''[[Nedunjeliyan I|Nedunchezhiyan I]]'', a [[Pandyan]] king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Umamaheshwari|first=R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRxJDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA43&dq=Mangulam+inscription+jain&hl=en|title=Reading History with the Tamil Jainas: A Study on Identity, Memory and Marginalisation|date=2018-01-25|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-81-322-3756-3|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Sangam poets]]<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{cite book|title=[[A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar]]|first=K. A. Nilakanta|last=Sastri|authorlink=K. A. Nilakanta Sastri|page=115}}<br />
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