Maravarman Avanisulamani

Maravarman

Avanisulamani
Maravarman
Reign	c. 620–645 CE
Predecessor	Kadungon
Successor	Seliyan Sendan (Jayantavarman)
Dynasty	Pandya
Father	Kadungon

Pandya dynasty
Early Pandya polity
Koon Pandiyan Nedunjeliyan I Nedunjeliyan II
Early Medieval Pandyas
Kadungon (c. 590–620)/(c. 560–590) Maravarman Avanichulamani (c. 620–645)/(c. 590–620) Cheliyan Chendan (c. 654–670)/(c. 620–650) Arikesari Maravarman (Parankusan) (c. 670–700)/(c. 650–700) Ko Chadaiyan Ranadhira (c. 700–730) Maravarman Rajasimha I (c. 730–765)/(c. 730–768) Srimara Srivallabha (c. 815–862) Varaguna II (c. 862–880)/(c. 862–885) Maravarman Rajasimha III (c. 900–915)

Maravarman Avanisulamani (IAST: Avaniśūlāmani; r. c. 620–645 CE) was a Pandya ruler of early historic south India.^[1] He was the son and successor of Kadungon, who revived the Pandya dynastic power after the Kalabhra interregnum. Not much information is available about either of these kings.^[1]

Velvikkudi Grant (a later copper-plate inscription) is the only source information about Avanisulamani.^[2]^[3] The grant praises the Pandya, claiming that he removed the common ownership of the Earth (by making it his own) and married the goddess of the flower (Lakshmi).^[3]

Maravarman Avanisulamani was succeeded by his son Seliyan Sendan (Jayantavarman).^[1]^[4]

Dates

K. A. Nilakanta Sastri – c. 620–645 CE.^[2]^[5]
T. V. Sadasiva Pandarathar – c. 600–625 CE.^[6]
Noboru Karashima – c. 590–620 CE^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c K. A. Nilakanta Sastri 1929, p. 50.
^ ^a ^b K. A. Nilakanta Sastri 1929, p. 41.
^ ^a ^b H. Krishna Sastri 1983, p. 291.
^ ^a ^b Noburu Karashima 2014, pp. 370.
^ K. A. Nilakanta Sastri 1958, p. 165.
^ N. Subrahmanian 1962, p. 116.

Bibliography

H. Krishna Sastri, ed. (1983). Epigraphica Indica. Vol. XVII. Calcutta: Archaeological Survey of India.
N. Subrahmanian (1962). History of Tamilnad (To A. D. 1336). Madurai: Koodal. OCLC 43502446. Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
K. A. Nilakanta Sastri (1958). A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. Madras: Oxford University Press.
K. A. Nilakanta Sastri (1929). The Pandyan Kingdom. London: Luzac and Company.
Noburu Karashima, ed. (2014). A Concise History of South India: Issues and Interpretations. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.