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| succession = | | succession = [[Pandyan dynasty|Pandyan Ruler]] | ||
| reign = {{circa|270 BCE}} | | reign = {{circa|270 BCE}} | ||
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| full name = Aariyap Padai Kadantha Nedunj Cheliyan | | full name = Aariyap Padai Kadantha Nedunj Cheliyan | ||
| house = [[Pandyan dynasty|Pandyan]] | | house = [[Pandyan dynasty|Pandyan]] | ||
| religion = [[Saivism]] | | religion = [[Saivism]]{{cn|date=November 2021}} | ||
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'''Nedunjcheliyan I''' (c. 270 BCE) (Tamil: நெடுஞ்செழியன்) was a [[Pandya]] king. He has been given | '''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}} | ||
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& | 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> | ||
== In popular culture == | |||
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> | |||
He is portrayed by [[O. A. K. Thevar]] in the film [[Poompuhar (film)|Poompuhar]] (1964). | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||