| Perum Cheral Irumporai | |
|---|---|
| Tagadur Erinta | |
 Pugalur inscription | |
| Issue | Ilamcheral Irumporai (Ilam Kadungo?) |
| House | Chera |
| Father | Selva Kadumko Valia Athan (Athan Cheral Irumporai?) |
Perum Cheral Irumporai, known as the Victor of Tagadur, was a member of the Irumporai line of the Chera dynasty in early historic south India (c. 1st - 4th century CE).[1] Perum Cheral is sometimes identified with Perum Kadungo, the Irumporai Chera royal mentioned in the Pugalur inscriptions.[2][3]
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The 78th poem of the Eighth Decade of the Patirruppattu praises his achievements:
"If you go, o viṟalis with few bangles,
[then that is the hill] in the mountain with beautiful white waterfalls which shine and fall [noisily] like the victorious muracu-drum, the hill of the one with elephants spread like cows, with horses spread like goats (in their country at the time when the severe frontier was destroyed, after [he] marched [there], so that the fierce enmity, from which the watching musicians take to running, had been cut, while they became perplexed, [the hill which is] certainly [a source of] fear, after he destroyed Takaṭūr [which was] like a thicket dense with bows, Takaṭūr, which was guarded by warriors of victorious war by perfoming feats, [Takaṭūr] at the areas which possess difficult paths, where the many yields were permanent, while girls with tender nature were chatting everywhere in the woodlands as being ones with the desire to scare away the parakeets by advancing as someones who are tired [of work],
after [they] cut lotuses with pointed petals together with neytal-flowers.'
— Patirruppattu 8 th decade - 78th song[4]
He is famous for the victory of Tagadur of Adigaman chieftain Ezhni. He is the hero of the eighth chapter of the Pathittupattu composed by poet Arichil Kizhar.[5][6]
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- ↑ "Cera dynasty | India". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ↑ "Cera dynasty | India". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ↑ See report in Frontline, June/July 2003
- ↑ Roland Ferenczi, History Behind the Praising Words of the Learned: An Annotated Translation of the Patiṟṟuppattu and the Political Geography of the Early Cēra Kingdom, University of Hamburg, 2022, p. 224.
- ↑ A Survey of Kerala History - A. Sreedhara Menon - Google Books. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ↑ Zvelebil, Kamil. ''The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India''. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. 40, 52-53.
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