Malaiyaman family. They mostly suffixed the title Chēdirāyan to the name of the reigning Chola king whom they served. For example, we have Vikramasola Chēdirāyan and his son Vikramasola Kovalarayan, Kulottungasola Chēdirāyan etc. They were rulers of Miladu and also bore titles such as Milad-udaiyan meaning lord of Miladu, Maladu-mannar or king of the inhabitants of hills, Malaiya-manattarkukku arasar or the king of inhabitants of the great country of hills or Malayarayar. Miladu or Maladu is a very pure Tamil form of Malainadu or the hill country. Meyporunayanar, a Chēdi king from Tirukovalur is mentioned in the Periyapuranam. Another important person from the same line was Pillai Perumāl Chēdirāyan, a contemporary of poet Kambar. We have a lot of chiefs of the Malaiyaman family making donations to temples in and around Tirukoyilur. For example, we find that Kulothunga Chola II gifted some lands for the puja at the local Vishnu temple at the request of Kulottungasola Chēdirāyan(ARE 124 of 1900). We have another chief called Rajendra Chola Chēdirāyan making donations to the temple(ARE 388 of 1909) in Tirukkoyilur. Yet another chief, Malaiyan Chēdirāyan endowed one vēli of land to the temple at Somasikiranur. Notes References Trade, ideology, and urbanization: South India 300 BC to AD 1300 By Radha Champakalakshmi Topics in South Indian history: from early times up to 1565 A.D. By A. Krishnaswami Social and cultural history of Tamilnad, Volume 1 By N. Subrahmanian Studies in Tamil Literature and History By Ramachandra Dikshitar History of Tamilnad: to A.D. 1565 By N. Subrahmanian The culture and history of the Tamils By Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri The four hundred songs of war and wisdom: an anthology of poems from classical Tamil : the Puranānūru, Translations from the Asian classics, By George L. Hart, Hank Heifetz Poets of the Tamil Anthologies By George L. Hart III The role of feudatories in later Chōḷa history By M. S. Govindasamy Nālandā and its epigraphic material By Hiranand Sastri Epigraphia Indica, Volume 7 By Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, Archaeological Survey of India, India. Dept. of Archaeology, India. Archaeological Survey A topographical list of the inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, collected till 1915: with notes and references, Volume 1 By Vijayaraghava Rangacharya http://www.whatisindia.com Tamil monarchs 2nd-century Indian monarchs Kadai ezhu vallal