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Senguttuvan

Also known as Chenguttuvan

Senguttuvan was a Chera king of the Sangam age in southern India, praised in the fifth decade of the Patirruppattu for his campaigns. In the epic Silappatikaram he leads an expedition to the Himalayas to bring a stone for an image of Kannagi, the heroine of the poem, establishing the cult of the goddess Pattini. His dates are uncertain, but he is usually placed around the 2nd century CE.

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Early Cheras

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