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Nadars are Villavar rulers of Pandyan Country

Villavars (Bowmen or archers)and Meenavars (fishermen) are the two ancient dynasties among the Dravidians who ruled the whole of India in the ancient times.The Villavar may represent the Cheras while Minavar many represent Pandyas. The Minavars and Villavars founded the Pandyan kingdom in the ancient times. Nadars are the Villavar warriors of the Pandyan kingdom or the Meenavar kingdom who formed the ruling dynasty. Enadhy or Enadi was an ancient title of Nadars. Enadhy Nayanar was a saint believed to belong to the Shanar tribe. Enadi ( Eyinan (Archer) + Adhi (ancient)),an ancient title of Nadars clearly indicates their villavar origins.The Villavar (Archer) Rulers Pandyan or Panayudaya nadu(Thamraparni area with the capital at Tenkasi)who integrated the Meenavar or fishermen country founded the ancient Pandyan dynasty with the capital at Korkai. The related Villavar clans of Kerala founded the Chera dynasty.The Chera kingdom had Bow and arrow as the insignia. The Chera kings added the title Villavar to their titles. All the Villavar clans added the title Alwar,Alvar or Aluvar. Similarly the Thulu Pandyan dynasty (The Alupas kingdom) added Aluvar or Aluva or Alwa.The Pandyan equivalent people of Tulunad are Nadavas who mixed with Bunts(a North Indian people who came from Ahichatra in UP)and have become a subcaste of Bunts. The Chera kings also added Alwar as title.Eg Kulasekhara alwar, the Chera King who wrote Perumal Thirumozhi in 801 ad. Nadalvar is the title of the Pandyan aristocracy in ancient times. Many of the Alwars of the Chera and Pandyan dynasty became Vaishnavaite saints who often took the title Pattar leading to the mistaken belief that they were brahmins.Perialvar belonged to Sri Villiputhur or Sri Villuputhur, had the title Azhvar clearly indicate the Pandyan(Villavar) origins. Further Perialvar had the title Patta Naadan. The Villavar clans of Pandyan origin are are Nadalvar ( Nadar)Nadavas of Karnataka Nalavar of Sri Lanka. The Villavar of Chera Kingdom,Illava or Ezhavas of Chera Kingdom with origins at Sri Lanka, Billavas of Karnataka. In north India Villavar and Meenavar are Bhil Meenas of Rajastan, Meenas of Rajastan and Bhils of North India who form the Rajput Kshatriya clans.Nadars are Villavar Bowmen warriors who mixed with Meenavar or fishermen and assumed the title Nadalvar (rulers of the country)or Meenavan orPandiyan.Pandiya (talk) 14:01, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Villavar — Villavars [cite book last=V. first= Kanakasabhai title= The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago origyear= year=1997 publisher= Asian Educational Services location= isbn= 8120601505] were the primary rulers among the Dravidians who once ruled the… …   Wikipedia

Meenavar — In the ancient times Rajasthan was ruled by a dynasty of Meenas which had the emblem of Fish like the Pandyan kingdom of the south. The Meena kingdom ruled the east of the river Jamuna roughly corresponding to the modern Jaipur and Alwar (ruler)… …   Wikipedia

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Warrior caste

Nadars belong to a warrior caste, the people who were warriors ruled the country in ancient India. The famous Cholas and Pandiyas were Nadars. They ruled this “Nadu” (country); hence they were called Nadalvar (Nadu- country, alvar- ruler).As the Nadar are more found in the southern part of Tamil nadu, most of the researchers believe Nadars are the Pandiyas, as the southern part of Tamil nadu is the region of the Pandiyas. The Nadar Mahajana Sangam, the biggest association of the Nadars which united the Nadars in the early 19^th century and restored power of the Nadars, has the Pandiyan Flag (Fish) as their symbol. A group of Nadars in the Tirunelvelli district believes they are the ascendants of the Cholas, they have collected the records of it.However the Nadars were the people who ruled the country. Posted by Paramasivan

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VILMEEN KODIAugust 31, 2015 at 9:26 AM

Nadar or Nadalvar are the aristocrats of ancient Villavar people. Nadalvar Nadazhwar Nadava (Alupas Pandyan Kingdom) Nadvaru Nadar Nadan all variants. Alwar Alva(Karnataka) also are similar titles of Villavar aristocracy.
Villavars and their Northern cousins Banas ruled most of India from prehistory.
Villavar subgroups were Villavar, Vanavar, Malayar and their seagoing cousins Meenavar. Ancient Tamil Coins displayed Hill, Bow and arrow and Fish insignia of various subgroups of Villavars
Villavars founded Chera Chola and Pandyan Kingdoms. Chola kings belonged to Vanavan sub group of Villavars.
Chola Queens were called Villavan Madevi or Vanavan Madevi.
Pandyans were called Marans and related to the Vanathi Rayar subgroups of Villavar. Madurai Kanchi describes the palaces of Perumbanar (Villavar) and Santor.
Villavar Cheras were called Villavar Kon as well as Vanavar Kon.The Northern cousins of Villavars, Banas founded Kadamaba kingdom of Banavasi, Alupas Pandyan Kingdom of Tulunadu, Bana Kingdoms with capitals at Sannamur, Perumbanappadi, and Kolar.The North Indian cousins of Villavar could be Bhils and Meenas. (A mixed tribe of Bhil Meena also exist). Meenas who founded the Matsya Kingdom south of Yamuna river four thousand years ago. Similar to Pandyan kingdom of Nadars Matsya Kingdom also had fish as emblem.
Northern India had many Bana kingdoms as welll. Bana is the Sanskritised form of Villavar.

Meenavar
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Meenavar are a Hindu caste found in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. In the ancient times Rajasthan was ruled by a dynasty of Meenas which had the emblem of Fish like the Pandyan kingdom of the south. The Meena kingdom ruled the east of the river Jamuna roughly corresponding to the modern Jaipur and Alwar (ruler) areas.

Meenavars are the very ancient peoples of tamilnadu .meenavars formed the pandiyan dynasty and give the fish symbol for that meenavars are the kings,rulers and warriors of pandiyan dynasty.They are known to be as Pandiya Kula Kshatriyas. ----User Review

Castes name: Parvatharajakulam, Sembadavar, pattinavar, Mukkuvar, paravar, chinna pattinavar and Karaiyar.
Harappa seals belonging to the Indus Valley civilization have large numbers of pictures of fish. According to Professor Asko Parpola, fish is also one of the most popular motifs of the early Harappan painted pottery. This short article presents a hypothesis on the significance of the fish symbol in Harappan seals.
Most scholars of Indus Valley civilization believe that it was a Dravidian or proto-Dravidian civilization. Tamil language is one of the oldest of Dravidian languages. Presently Tamil people live in the southern region of the Indian peninsula and in the north-eastern region of the Sri Lankan Island. What is the ancestry of Tamils? Legend has it that there was a large landmass south of the Indian peninsula called the continent of Kumari (Kumari Kandam). Westerners refer to this ancient continent as "Lemuria". There is geological evidence that there was, in fact, a landmass south of the Indian peninsula. According to legend and some literary references, Tamils populated this continent and kings belonging to the Pandyan dynasty (Pandya dynasty) ruled the land. This landmass submerged and some of the population came north to what is today the Indian subcontinent. It is possible that Tamils (or Dravidians) lived in India already and the "refugees" joined them. It is also quite conceivable that there was some migration and interaction between the north and south even before the tragic event. After the submergence of the southern landmass, Pandyan kings established their kingdom in southern India with Madurai as their capital. They ruled from Madurai as late as the 14-th Century AD. Their country, which was part of Tamil Nadu, was called Pandyanadu (or Pandya Nadu). Padynan dynasty is the oldest of the three ruling dynasties of Tamil Nadu, namely, the Chera, Chola and Pandya dynasties.
The royal emblem of the Padya dynasty is fish. Tamil word for fish is "meen". Pandyan king is sometimes referred to as "meenavan". Their deity is "Meenatchi" (or Meenashi or Meenakshi). "Meen" means fish (as we said before), and "aatchi" means rule. Thus the name "Meenatchi" may mean "one who rules over the Pandyan dynasty". Even today there is a temple for goddess Meenatchi (Meenashi) in Madurai. Thus fish is an important symbol for Tamils. So the fish symbols in Harappan seals may refer to their ancestral king and/or the goddess. courtesy to http://www.tamiltribune.com
Pathuppāttu – Mathuraikānchi
Pathuppāttu Song – Mathuraikānchi
மதுரைக் காஞ்சி – This is one fo the Pathupāttu songs – published in 1889
ஆசிரியர் - மாங்குடி மருதனார்
மன்னன் – பாண்டியன் நெடுஞ்செழியன், also known as தலையாலங்கானத்துச் செருவென்ற பாண்டியன் (believed to have lived around 215 A.D.)
This song has 782 lines – longest of Pathupāttu songs
“முருகு பொருநாறு பாணிரண்டு முல்லை பெருகு வளமதுரைக் காஞ்சி – மருவினிய கோலநெடு நல் வாடை கோல் குறிஞ்சி பட்டினப் பாலை கடாத்தொடும் பத்து”.
The poet Māngudi Maruthanār, who also goes by the name Māngudi Kizhār, has also written poems in Purananuru – 24, 26, 313, 335, 372, 396 and in Kurunthokai – 164, 302 and Natrinai 120. He might have been the court poet for king Pandiyan Nedunchezhian, whose Madurai is praised in Puranānuru 72. There is a good description of the Pandiyan country and life in Madurai. The market place, Buddhist shrines, Jain shrines, riches the warriors brought home and all the activity in the city in the day and during the night. According to the Tamil and Sanskrit 

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Similarly the early Pandyan kingdom used Hill as insignia as well. Malaya Thwaja Paandyan is one of the Early Pandyan kings.

Thus Pandyans used Bow and Arrow, Hill and Fish all indicate the subgroups of Villavars.

While the Villavar kings used the title Maveli their northern cousins used the title Mahabali.

The ancient Villavar-Bana ruler Mahabali might have ruled from Eraniel. Eranial is otherwise called Hiranya Simha Nallur in the ancient times named after the Great grandfather of Mahabali. Mahabalis son was called Banasura.

In Andhrapradesh the descendents of Bana kingdom and Mahabali are called as Balija.
Setti-Balija is a subgroup under the Goud community in Andhra. Similarly Balijas are found among Kapus also. Balijas descend from the Norhern cousins of Villavars, the Banas. Setti-Balijas claim that they are closely related to Nadars.

Many Bana clans in North India are mixed with Jats and Rajputs.

Bhils and Meenas survive in many North India states. Meena whose Matsya Kingdom was mentioned in Rigveda had kingdoms in the middle ages too. Meena also called Meenanda might be the Northern cousins of Nadars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meena