 A select group of young men of high accomplishments were presented to her.She chose the twenty-one-year-old graduate, and Sanskrit scholar, Sri Pooram Nal Ravi Varma Thampuran of the Kilimanoor royal house, after being impressed by his erudition and his high level of education (college graduates were a rarity in those days).Their wedding took place in 1907; when she turned fourteen in 1911, their marriage was consummated.