Introduction
The most celebrated Chera king, subject of the Fifth Decad of the Padirruppattu and central to the Silappatikaram, where he consecrates the deified Kannagi as the goddess Pattini
Family
- Father: Imayavaramban Nedunjeral Adan
- Siblings: Ilango Adigal, Kuttuvan Kotai
Textual Notes
Note: The Silappatikaram describes Senguttuvan fetching a stone from the Himalayas to carve the image of Kannagi and installing her worship as the goddess of chastity (Pattini) — a major episode linking the Chera court to the Silappatikaram narrative.
This article records a figure from Sangam-era and early medieval Tamil literature and dynastic tradition — the Chera, Chola, Pandya and Pallava royal lines, the legendary Kadai Ezhu Vallalgal patrons, and the Silappatikaram/Manimekalai epic cycle. Chronology and genealogy in this corpus are drawn from praise-poetry and literary narrative rather than administrative record, and are recorded here as attested textual tradition rather than settled history; the Pallava kings in particular postdate the classical Sangam corpus by several centuries, as noted in their individual entries.