Alli Raani

[6] She is also depicted in a popular dramatic compilation in Tamil language, entitled as Alli Arasani Nadakam.

[7] The only daughter of a Pandyan king, she was considered an immaculate conception as she was found on an alli (Tamil word for lily) after the end of a Putrakameshti ritual.

[8] She defeated and killed in a battle an usurper to the Pandyan throne named Neenmugan, "The blue faced one", who came at her with an army.

[6] Alli Raani ruled over the in western and northern coasts of Sri Lanka and controlled there the pearl fishery.

[1][9] According to local traditions did the gulf of Arasadi have no opening towards the north, but communicated with the sea by a channel running in the line of the present Chilaw canal.