Mutharaiyar Global

Mutharaiyar Global est utilisé pour connecter la communauté Mutharaiyar à l'échelle mondiale

Muthuraja also known as Kudiyaanavar and Ambalakarar is a Tamil speaking community prevalent in southern India.They were historically zamindars and landlords.Their primary occupation is agriculture and trade. The Muthuraja people are the descendants of the Muttaraiyar line of kings who ruled the districts of Trichy, Thanjavur and Pudukottai between the sixth and the ninth century. The Muthuraja people are spread throughout rural area around Trichy region. The community is mostly distributed in the Tiruchirappalli, Pudukkottai,Tanjore, Karur,Namakkal and Perambalur districts of Tamil Nadu.

The Mutharaiyar dynasty was a royal family in what is now the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. They governed the Tanjore, Trichy and Pudukottai regions between 600-900 CE. The Mutharaiyar invaded Tamil kingdoms around 2nd century from Erumainadu, which is identified with the area in and around modern Mysore in Karnataka.[citation needed] The Tamil language literary work Muttolaayiram lauds the exploits of the Mutturaja chieftains.[1][full citation needed] They seem to have established themselves as Lords of the Tanjore district in Tamilakkam. The most famous rulers were Perumbidigu Muttaraiyar, also called Kuvavan Maaran, his son Maaran Parameswaran alias Ilangovadiaraiyan followed by Suvaran Maaran alias Perumbidigu Muttaraiyan II.

During the 7th to 8th centuries, the Mutharaiyar served as feudatories of the Pallava dynasty and controlled the fertile plains of the Kaveri region. An inscription in the Vaikuntha Perumal temple in Kanchipuram mentions a Mutharaiyar chief receiving Nandivarman II at the latter's coronation. According to historian T. A. Gopinatha Rao, this chief was Suvaran Maaran (also called Perumbidigu Muthurayar II). Suvaran Maaran is styled as Kalvara Kalvan in this epigraph. According to historian Mahalingam, Suvaran Maaran fought along with Udayachandra, the Pallava general of Nandivarman II, in at least twelve battles against the Cheras and Pandyas