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Netunceliyan I (Tamil: நெடுஞ்செழியன், r.  c. 270 BCE)) was an early Pandyan king. He was titled the Āriyappaṭai-kaṭanta Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ, signifying his defeat of the "northern Aryans".

Archaeological evidence

His name is present in the Mangulam inscriptions of the 3rd century BCE. The inscriptions mentions that workers of Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ I, a Pandyan king of the Sangam era, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks.

In popular culture

Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ was also the king of the Cilappatikaram, the epic authored by the poet Ilango Adigal, who later died of a broken heart along with his queen-consort Kopperundevi.

He is portrayed by O. A. K. Thevar in the film Poompuhar (1964).

See also

• List of Sangam poets

Notes

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References

1. Kavitha, S. S. (19 September 2012). "About a secular past". The Hindu.
2. Umamaheshwari, R. (25 January 2018). Reading History with the Tamil Jainas: A Study on Identity, Memory and Marginalisation. Springer. ISBN 978-81-322-3756-3.
3. Umamaheshwari, R. (25 January 2018). Reading History with the Tamil Jainas: A Study on Identity, Memory and Marginalisation. Springer. ISBN 978-81-322-3756-3.
4. Mahadevan, Iravatham (2003). Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01227-1.

Further reading

• Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. p. 115.

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