Introduction
A Chola prince in the Manimekalai who becomes obsessively infatuated with Manimekalai and pursues her despite her having taken up ascetic/monastic vows
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Textual Notes
Note: The Manimekalai records that Udayakumaran was slain by a guardian deity protecting Manimekalai's vows, after his repeated pursuit of her.
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.