High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vallavarayan Vandiyadevan was a feudatory of the Chola kings Raja Raja Chola I and Rajendra Chola I and chief of the Samanthas of North Arcot. He was married to Kundavai, the elder sister of Raja Raja I. The territory under his authority was known as Vallavaraiyarnadu. Vandiyadevan is idealized in Kalki`s romantic novel Ponniyin Selvan.