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<div>{{Short description|First Pandyan ruler}}<br />
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| succession = [[Pandyan dynasty|Pandyan Ruler]]<br />
| reign = {{circa|270 BCE}}<br />
| predecessor = unknown<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]]{{cn|date=November 2021}}<br />
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'''Nedunjcheliyan I''' ({{Reign}} c. 270 BCE) ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]: நெடுஞ்செழியன்) was a [[Pandya]] king. He has been given the title ''Aariya Padai kadantha Nedunjezhiya Pandiyan'' (A Pandyan King, who defeated the Ariya troops).{{cn|date=July 2021}} <br />
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According to epigraphist S. Ramachandran it was Nedunchezhian, who is referred to in Purananuru as ''Ariya padai kadanda Nedunchezhian'' and Ariya referred to Kharvela. Kharavela’s army have marched up to Madurai. Nedunchezhian managed the crisis, gave many gifts to Kharavela, and averted the threat to his throne. The Brahmi inscription in Mangulam, mentions a Pandya King called Nedunchezhian. The inscription is dated to 2nd century BCE. This Nedunchezhian was probably the one who ruled in Madurai in Kharavela’s time.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPVq3ykHyH4C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA104&dq=chola+and+kharvela&hl=en|title=A History of India|last=Kulke|first=Hermann|last2=Rothermund|first2=Dietmar|date=2004|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-32919-4|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 ''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&dq=Mangulam+inscription+jain&pg=PA43|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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== In popular culture ==<br />
Nedunjcheliyan I was also the Pandya king of the epic ''[[Silappatikaram]]'' authored by the [[Sangam literature|Sangam]] 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&dq=Mangulam+inscription+jain&pg=PA43 |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&q=Mangulam+inscription+jain |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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He is portrayed by [[O. A. K. Thevar]] in the film [[Poompuhar (film)|Poompuhar]] (1964).<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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