PONNIYIN

S ELVA N C RI SP S

BY

DANUJA S
 ABOUT AUTHOR

• ORIGINAL NAME: RAMASWAMY KRISHNAMURTHY

• DATE OF BIRTH: 09/09/1899
• BIRTH PAGE: PUTHAMANGALAM, NEAR MANALMEDU
• DATE OF DEATH: 05/12/1954
• PLACE OF DEATH: CHENNAI
• OCCUPATION: JOURNALIST, CRITIC, WRITER
• NOTABLE AWARDS: SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS FOR
ALAI OSAI
NOTABLE BOO KS:
• PONNIYIN SELVAN

• SIVAGAMIYIN SAPATHAM

• THYAGA BHOOMI
• PARTHIBAN KANAVU
• ALAI OSAI
• KALVANIN KADHALI
 A WAR NING A ND T HE STAR T:

• THE WARNING FOR THE READERS WILL BE ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK DOESNOT EXSIST
IN REAL LIFE NOW AND SO IT SHOULD BE RED AS AN ANOTHER NORMAL BOOK
LIKE ANYOTHER AND NOT AS A HISTORY

• THE STORY STARTS BY SAYING ABOUT THE CHOLA KINGDOM AND THE WEALTH OF IT AND THE
RIVERS IN IT BY VAANAR KULA SELVAN VANTHIYA DEVAN THE MESSENGER OF THE
PRINCE AATHITHA KARIKAALAR, THE NEXT KING IN PEOPLES HEART OF THE KINGDOM.
• THE STORY MOVES IN THE FLOW WITH THE YOUNG FLIRTY VANTHIYA DEVAN TO MEET THE
KING,SUNDHARA CHOLAR THE GUY WHO IS NOT ONLY FAMOUS FOR HIS BEAUTY BUT
ALSO HIS BRAVERY
• NOT ONLY HIM BUT HIS FOREFATHERS ARE ALSO KNOWN FOR THEIR BRAVERY IN THIS STORY
• VANTIYA DEVAN IS ASSIGNED BY KARIKAALAR TO PASS THE MESSAGE TO HIS FATHER AND HIS
SISTER,THE BEAUTY OF THE WHOLE KINGDOM,PRINCESS KUNTHI DEVI WHO IS ALSO
KNOWN FOR HER SHARP BRAIN AND HER ACTIVITIES IN POLITICS OF THE COUNTRY
• ON THE WAY TO MEET THEM HE VISITS HIS BEST FRIEND KANTHA MARAN FROM THE SAME
ARMY WHO IS THE SON OF THE KING OF KADAMBOOR SAMBUVARAIYAR, WHO
ALWAYS WANTED HIS FRIEND TO VISIT HIS PALACE.

• MANIMEGALAI, THE SISTER OF KANDHAMARAN WHO FEL IN LOVE WITH DEVAN JUST BY
THE STORIES SHE HEARD OF HIM FROM HER BROTHER, WAS MISMERISED BY HIS BEAUTY JUST
AT THE SIGHT OF HIM

• THE NATURAL FLIRT DEVAN TRIES TO STOP FLIRTING AS SHE IS HIS FRIENDS SISTER. BUT AT
THE TIME HE MEETS THE PERIYA PALUVETAIYAR WHO CAME THERE FOR A SECRET MEETING

• DEVAN FOUND THE REASON FOR THE SECRET MEETING ALONE BUT ALSO
FINDS ANOTHER PERSON WHO FINDS THE SAME SECRET,AALVARKU ADIYAN NAMBI
• ALVARKU ADIYAN, A SPY FOR THE PERIYA PIRAATI FINDS THE SAME TRUTH

• DEVAN WITH THE TRUTH RUSHES TO FIND A WAY TO ENTER THE PALACE
• HE FINDS NANDINI THE WIFE OF PERIYA PALUVETAIYAR AND THE EX LOVER OF KARIKAALAR ON THE
WAY TO THE PALACE WHERE THE KING IS CURENTLY LIVING

• HE FINDS SENTHAN AMUTHAN THE GUY WHO PROVIDES FLOWERS FOR PRAYERS IN THE TEMPLES
INSIDE PALACE AND HIS MOTHER A MUTE. THEY ARE AUTHENTIC DISPILCES OF LORD SHIVA
• HE ENTERS AND FINDS THE TRUTH THAT THE KING CANNOT WALK ALSO HE IS LIKELY
ARRESTED BY PALUVETAYARS IN THEIR CONTROL
• HE PASSES THE MESSAGE AND MEETS KUNTHAVAI IN HER PALACE AND SHE ASKS HIM
TO WORK FOPR HER

• SHE COMMANDS HIM TO GET HER BROTHER, PONNIYIN SELVAN ARULMOHLI VARMAR, FROM
EZHAM TO HER TO AVOID THE CONFLICT THAT ROSE DUE TO AN STAR THAT ROSE IN THE
SKY WHICH MEANS A GUY FROM THE RULER FAMILY WILL DIE
• ON HIS WAY FROM EZHAM DEVAN FINDS THAT THE PALUVETAYARS HAD A TRAP FOR PONNIYIN
SELVAN TO ARREST OR KILL HIM AND CREATE A CONFLICT INSIDE THE COUNTRY.

• THE WORKERS OF PALUVETAYARS MADE THE SHIP SINK.

• BUT A OLD LADY WHO LOOKS SIMILAR TO NANDINI SAVES THEM AND HE REMEMBER THE FACE
WHICH SAVED HIM YEARS AGO WHEN HE FELL INTO THE RIVER PONNI THE REASON WHY HE GOT
THE NAME
• LATER POONGULALI SAVES THEM AND TAKES THEM TO A BUUDHA TEMPLE AND PEOPLE
FROM THERE SAVES HIM AND WHEN HE IS UNDER CURE THEY SEND THE NEWS TO HIS
SIBLINGS WHO BEFORE WAS INFORMED LIKE HE IS DEAD DUE TO THE SINK OF THE SHIP
• LATER KARIKALAR MEETS HIS EX LOVER WHO NOW HAS A RELATIONSHIP OF HIM AND HER
IS GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDCHILD IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE THE SECRET MEETING
OCCURRED
• SHE KILLS HIM AND THE STAR FALLS DOWN AND THE PEOPLE OF THE KINGDOM FINDS
SOMETHING WRONG TO THE RULER FAMILY
• KARIKALAN DIED. HIS GRANDFATHER CRIED BY SAYING ALL THE THINGS HE DID IN HIS
LIFE. THE PEOPLE SUSPECTED DEVAN TO KILL HIM BUT THEY DIDN'T KNOW HIS EX LOVER KILLED
HIM.THEY SUSPECTED DEVAN TO KILL HIM TO MARRY HIS SISTER.

• MEGALAI ENTERED THE COURT ROOM TO SAY SHE KILLED HIM. BUT WHEN PEOPLE
DIDN'T BELIEVE HER SHE TRIED TO KILL HERSELF. BUT SHE WAS SAVED BY DEVAN
AND A PERSON ENTERS THE COURT HALL

• PERIYA PALUVETAYAR SAID HE KILLED HIM AND FOUND THAT HIS WIFE
CHEATED HIM AND MADE HIM WORK FOR HER TO KILL AND DESTROY THE CHOLA DYNASTY
TO GET REVENGE FOR THE DEATH OF PANDYA DYNASTY'S KING

• NANDINI WHO WAS MADE TO MOVE OUT OF THE STATE TO AVOID KARIKALAN BY KUNTHAVI BY HER
SUSPICIOUS THOUGHT ABOUT HER, WAS SUPPORTED BY PANDYAN KING TO MAKE HER LIVE A LITTLE
PEACEFUL.

• WHEN KARIKALAN FOUND NANDINI MOVED OUT OF STATE AND HE COULDN'T FIND
HER. HE STARTED FIGHTING AGAINST OTHER DYNASTIES AND HE WENT AGAINST PANDYAN AND
HE KILLED HIM INFRONT OF NANDINI
• SHE WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM BUT WANTS REVENGE
JUST CUZ OF HIS HELP AND DECIDES TO KILL CHOLA DYNASTY TO GIVE THE KINGDOM
BACK TO PANDYAN'S SON.

• LATER THEY FIND THE ORIGINAL STORY OF NANDINI. OOMAIRAANI THE ACTUAL
MOTHER OF NANDINI AND HER BROTHER THE FAKE MADHURAANTHAGA DEVAR ,WAS
ACTUALLY HARRASSED BY PANDIYAN, WAS ACTUALLY IN LOVE
WITH SUNDARA CHOLAR BUT DUE TO HIS BUSY DAYS WITH KINGDOM HE COULDN'T REACH
HER BUT THOUGHT SHE WAS DEAD DUE TO HIS BELIEVE WITH HIS OLD FRIEND WHO SAID
SHE DIED BY FALLING FROM LIGHT HOUSE. SO THE ACTUAL SON OF PERIYA PIRAATI
IS SENTHAN AMUDHAN WHO LATER MARRIES POONGULALI AND ARULMOZHI
MARRIES VAANATHI.
• BUT MANIMEGALAI DIED LONELY WHICH WAS SO BAD LIKE SHE COULDN'T RECOGNISE HER
LOVE OF LIFE VANTHIYA DEVAN AND EVEN HER BROTHER. HER DEATH MADE DEVAN FEEL
BAD.
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