Perunarkilli


Perunarkilli was one of the Tamil kings of the Early Cholas mentioned in Sangam Literature. There are no definite details about this Chola or his reign. The only information available is from the fragmentary poems of Sangam in the Purananuru poems.

Powerful Monarch

Perunarkilli must have been a powerful monarch, as he is the only one among the early Tamil kings of the Sangam age to have performed the rajasuya sacrifice. It is likely that the Chera king Mari Venko and the Pandya Ugrapperuvaluthi attended this occasion. The sangam poet Auvaiyar has written this fine benediction.
Nothing is known of the events in this king’s reign. He must have had his share of fighting as inferred from a poem in Purananuru which gives a graphic but conventional description of the havoc wrought by the invading Chola army on the enemy countries.