Monday, June 13, 2011

Kanaikkal Irumborai Chera

Kanaikkal Irumborai was an early Chera king lived during the Tamil Sangam age.

Kochchenganan defeated the Chera king Kanaikkal Irumborai in a place called Kazhumalam near Karur. Kanaikkal was arrested and put behind the bars. Kanaikkal was a poet too. As per his poems found in the old Tamil work 'Pura Nanoonuru', he had to beg the soldiers for water. The poet Poigaiyaar intervened and got his released from the prison.

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