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==Migration to Kerala== | ==Migration to Kerala== | ||
According to some Malayalam folk songs like Vadakkan Pattukal and legend, the Thiyyar were the progeny of four bachelors that the king of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) sent to what is now Kerala at the request of the Chera king Bhaskara Ravi Varma, in the 1st century CE. These men were sent, ostensibly, to set up coconut farming in the region. Another version of the story says that the king sent eight martial families at the request of a Chera king to quell a civil war that had erupted against him. However, they still survive in Malabar and are known as Thiyyar or "Thiyya", localization of the name " | According to some Malayalam folk songs like Vadakkan Pattukal and legend, the Thiyyar were the progeny of four bachelors that the king of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) sent to what is now Kerala at the request of the Chera king Bhaskara Ravi Varma, in the 1st century CE. These men were sent, ostensibly, to set up coconut farming in the region. Another version of the story says that the king sent eight martial families at the request of a Chera king to quell a civil war that had erupted against him. However, they still survive in Malabar and are known as Thiyyar or "Thiyya", localization of the name "Devya" equivalent to Deva. | ||
<ref>{{cite book |last1=L.K.A.Iyer |title=The Mysore Tribes and caste |publisher=Google Books |pages=279}}</ref> | |||
==Thiyyar dynasties== | ==Thiyyar dynasties== | ||