Talk:Rama Rajasekhara

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Maybe there is a better place for this...... Redheylin (talk) 21:04, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These Bhakti Cheramans (Sans: Keraputra) were direct descendants of the Sangam age Cheras. They were referred to as Chera - mans (man meaning "the noble") just like the Adiyamans (Sans: Satyaputras) who ruled from Tagadur (Dharmapuri). Cheramal Perumal is also said to have ruled Venadu and Kuttanadu , two Koduntamizh regions which compromise modern Kerala. Cheraman Perumal Nayanar was a friend of the Saivite saint Sundaramurthy Nayanar. Similarly, another Chera of the Bhakti age, Kulasekharazhvar describes himself as Kollikkavalan (ruler of the Kolli hills, an attribute carried by the Sangam Cheras of Karur) and as the ruler of Kollinagar (Karur). The most interesting fact is that he has called himself as Kongar Koman or the ruler of the Kongu Nadu, the traditional Chera territory in Tamil Nadu in which Karur has been the Vanchi (capital) and Kolli hills have been the frontier with the Chozhas.

A confusion created by modern Keralite historians is to try mixing this Sangam-Bhakti Cheras with the Kerala Varmans though archeological, literary, numismatic and epigraphic proofs indicate otherwise.[1]

Ramabhakta Kulasekharazhvar who wrote the Tamil Prabandams is never mentioned in the vast Tamil cannon as to have written any Sanskrit work while many works of the other eleven Azhvars are written of. Thus Vaishnavite traditions hold the other later Sanskrit Krishna Bhakta Kulasekhara as a Kerala Varman and not as a Chera.

Similarly Cheraman Perumal of the Bhakti age is confused with the later Kerala Varmans who are in no way connected to the Cheras.