Maravarman Avanisulamani (
IAST
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: Avaniśūlāmani; ''r. c.'' 620–645 CE) was a
Pandya ruler of early historic south India. He was the son and successor of
Kadungon :''Kadungon or Kadunkon was also the name an earlier Pandyan Kingdom, Pandya king, mentioned in the Sangam literature.''
Kadungon was a Pandyan Kingdom, Pandya king who revived the Pandya rule in South India in the 6th century CE. Along with the ...
, who revived the Pandya dynastic power after the
Kalabhra interregnum
The Kalabhra dynasty, also called ''Kaḷabrar'', ''Kaḷappirar'', ''Kallupura'' or Kalvar, were rulers of all or parts of Tamil region sometime between the 3rd century and 6th century CE, after the ancient dynasties of the early Cholas, th ...
. Not much information is available about either of these kings.
Velvikkudi Grant (a later copper-plate inscription) is the only source information about Avanisulamani. 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).
Maravarman Avanisulamani was succeeded by his son
Seliyan Sendan (Jayantavarman).
Dates
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K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri (12 August 1892 – 15 June 1975) was an Indian historian who wrote on South Indian history. Many of his books form the standard reference works on the subject. Sastri was acclaimed for his scholarship and ...
— c. 620–645 CE.
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T. V. Sadasiva Pandarathar
T. V. Sadasiva Pandarathar (15 July 1892 – 02 January 1960) was a Tamil historian from Tamil Nadu, India.
Sadasiva Pandarathar was born in Thiruppurambiyam to Vaithiyalinga Pandarathar and Meenatchi Ammal. He finished his schooling in 1910 an ...
— c. 600–625 CE.
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Noboru Karashima
was a Japanese historian, writer and Professor Emeritus in University of Tokyo, Japan. He also served as Professor Emeritus at the Taisho University, Japan. He was a prominent scholar of Asia in the studies of south Indian and South Asian histori ...
— c. 590–620 CE
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Pandyan kings
7th-century Indian monarchs
6th-century Indian monarchs