Chapter one: pandya-chola war and pandalam dynasty.
Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabari hills is a well known temple in south India.According to the myths lord Ayyappa was born to Lord Siva and Maha Vishnu and brought up by Pandalam king, then this prince of Pandalam with extraordinary powers ones went to Sabari hills for meditation and then it turned as a pilgrimage.
Formation Of Pandalam Kingdom
While we start leaning this story we should start from Pandy-chola war. Around 900AD Pandya Kingdom of Madurai in Tamil Nadu was attacked by the ‘Cholas’, who were a prominent dynasty of that time in south India, this attack declined the Pandya kingdom at Madurai. After the Kingdom Collapsed, Pandya went Kerala as refuge and brought some land from a land lord of Pandalam named ‘Kaipuzha Thampan’. Around 904AD this Nair Land lord ‘Kaipuzha Thampan’ died, he didn’t even have any offspring to maintain his land thus all the lands of this Nair land Lord goes to The Pandya King and used this land to establish a kingdom, called ‘Pandalam kingdom’ in 904AD.
In 1174 AD the Pandya Kings who were defeated by the Cholas migrated to Kerala and these Pndya Royals re-united, Some other Pandya Kings Who were migrated to Kerala by the attack of Madurai Naiks, Delhi Sulthan Alavudeen Khilji during the period of 1310 AD were later formed Punjar royalty and Minachil. This is is what the historians and researchers about the formation of Pandalam Dynasty.
Udayanan and Sabari hills
At this time a Marava chief name Udayanan came from TamilNadu and dominated the borders of Pandalam Kingdom like Talapara, Inichipara and Karimala. Dharma Sastha Temple of Sabarimala , Avalokiteswara Sreebudha was near these places where the Udayanan dominated his settlement and this was between a travel route between Kerala and Tamilnadu, merchants used this route to travel. The Udayanan began plundering from these merchants and near by villagers.Udayanan also Plundered Avalokiteswara temple and had a plan to move towards pandalam Kingdom.
Kampilli panikkar was the commander of Pandalam Kingdom at that time, But he was aged and not fit to defend any attack or to lead an attack so he decided to handover his power to his son and he trained his son as god commander for the palace. He performed well and he was able to protect the palace.One day he went somewhere away from the palace unfortunately the Panadalam Kingdom was attcked by the Udayanan, in the absence of young commander of Pandalam Kingdom the age commander Kaampilli Panikkar made a defense to protect the palace, But he couldn’t. Udayanan defeated the commander and took away the princes , she was the only sister of the King. Hours Later the Young commander went back heard this news ,he immediately decided to set up force to attack Udayanan and he created a force with available nairs and went to Udayanan,s camp at that night.
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Note:This article series is on the basis of collected information from various historical books such as “Elavarsevampettu”, Kesari Balakrishnan Pillai’s”followers”, Nalankal Krishnapillai and Dr.S.K Nairs Book
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