Introduction
A Bana-lineage chieftain and Chola military commander; widely known as Kundavai's husband through Kalki Krishnamurthy's historical novel Ponniyin Selvan
Family
- Spouse: Kundavai (married)
Historical Notes
Note: The marriage between Vandiyadevan and Kundavai is best attested through Ponniyin Selvan, a 20th-century historical novel, rather than through direct epigraphic confirmation; a historical Vandiyadevan/Bana chieftain does appear in the inscriptional record, but the marriage itself is recorded here with that caveat rather than as settled epigraphic fact.
This article records a figure from the medieval Chola and Pandya dynasties of Tamilakam (9th-14th century CE), reconstructed primarily from temple and copper-plate inscriptions rather than a single continuous chronicle. Where a genealogical claim could not be confirmed against reliable inscriptional or scholarly sources, it has been left unrecorded rather than guessed, as noted in the individual entries.