Battle of Talaiyalanganam

According to Akananuru - 36 Pandyan nedumchelian ll Won seven kings include Chera, Chola and five velirs in Talaiyanaganam battle.

Akananuru 36 Verse follows:

"The gossip that has risen is greater than

the uproars of the victorious warriors of the Pandyan king with horses with trimmed tufts and chariot with many flags at the huge Alankanam battlefield on the day they battled and won killing enemy forces, seized the white umbrellas and drums and performed battlefield rituals after subduing the powerful seven: Chera king, Chola king, Thithiyan with rage, battle-skilled Ezhini with elephants and wearing ornaments, Erumaiyur king with fiber filtered liquor, Irungo Venman with sandal paste and fragrant garlands on his

chest and Porunan with fast chariot."

Akananiru - 36 Verse mentioned the seven who were defeated by Nedunjeliyan ll - Chera king, Chola king, Thithiyan, Elini, Erumaiyir king, Irungo Vénman, and Porunan. Pandiyan Thalaiyalankanathu Cheruvendra Neduncheliyan, was the one for whom Mathuraikanji was written.^[4]

During the Reign of Pandyan Nedunjeliyan ll, the Chola, chera king and five velirs invade Pandyan kingdom and young Pandyan king met the coliation forces at Talaiyalanganam (identified with a site near Kodaivasal, Thiruvarur district . Nedunjeliyan ll defeated the Confederacy and captured Chera king identified with Mandaranjeral Irumporai and Captured large booty. After the battle Nedunjeliyan ll campaign against the Evvi and the Velir chiftain in Millalai, and Muttur and annexed that into his kingdom. During the reign of Nedunjeliyan ll pandyas captured whole Tamilakam up to Coorg and Mangalore.^[1][2][5][6]