Introduction
Heroine of the Silappatikaram, deified as the goddess of chastity (Pattini) after proving her husband Kovalan's innocence and cursing Madurai to burn
Family
- Father: Kannagi's father
- Spouse: Kovalan (married)
Textual Notes
Note: After Kovalan's wrongful execution, Kannagi proved his innocence before the Pandya court by producing her second anklet (filled with gems, not the pearls of the queen's anklet he was accused of stealing), then tore off her breast and cursed the city of Madurai to burn; she was later deified and installed as Pattini by the Chera king Senguttuvan.
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.