[6] In a Telugu record (1317 AD) of the Kakatiya ruler Prataparudra II, he is called "Malayala Tiruvadi Kulasekhara".

[8] Venatu is the region lying between Cape Comorin, Trivandrum, and Quilon in present-day southern Kerala with its capital at the latter place.

[4] A Sanskrit inscription at Chidambaram Temple, Cuddalore district speaks of the murder of the "Kerala" king by Jatavarma Sundara Pandya.

[10] Maravarman is very likely to have led military expeditions against Venatu, perhaps suppressing a local rising, and captured the capital city Quilon.

The Pandya control over Venatu is shown by the Chalai Inscription mentioning the regnal year of Maravarman Kulasekhara while referring to Ravivarman, the son of Jayasimha also.

[3][4] Following the Sanskrit inscriptions, in Grantha characters, at Ranganathasvamy Temple, Srirangam Ravivarman was born in the Saka year 1188 (as given in chronogram "dehavyapya") corresponding to 1266 – 67 AD.

For more than a decade, he ruled as a vassal under the Pandya ruler Maravarman Kulasekhara, as is evidenced by the Trivandrum Chalai Inscription in which he uses the Pāndya title "Māravarman" along with his name.

It seems Ravivarmam defeated Vikrama Pandya, who perhaps attempted to extend his power over Venatu, and presumably handed him over to Maravarman Kulasekhara and the latter was so pleased with Ravivarman that he gave him his daughter in marriage.

[12] Ravivarman started raiding the Pāndya kingdom in 1312 AD, deep in the Tamil homeland, and defeated the armies of prince Vira Pandya.

[4][14] He performed another coronation at the Telugu-Choda capital Kanchi, on the bank of River Vegavati, in 1312 - 13 after ejecting the weakened Chola monarch Manma Siddha III, Raya Gandagopala.

[4][14] A Kanchipuram Inscription - dated to 1315- 16 - says that Ravivarman again defeated Vira Pandya and drove him into "Konkana" and from there into the forests, and then [again] conquered the northern country.

Some scholars assume that the devi was installed here as a gift of the Chera family, represented by Ravivarman, to the god Varadaraja.

At Srirangam, king "Kulasekhara" is said to have given his daughter Cherakulavalli in marriage to god Ranganatha and done extensive constructional activities in the third prakara.

Yadava ruler of Devagiri Samkara was executed by Malik Kafur, the general of Delhi Sultan Alaud-din Khalji, in 1312 upon withholding the tribute promised.

Kakatiya ruler of Warangal Pratapa Rudra II appears in several records from Kurnool, Nellore, Cuddapah and Guntur districts as a powerful monarch.

The Hoysala prince Vira Ballala was earlier carried captive by Malik Kafur to Sultanate capital Delhi.

[1] Ravivarman's hold over Kanchi was only short-lived and his aggressive activities were arrested by the Kakatiya ruler of Warangal, Prataparudra II (1295 - 1326).

Muppidi Nayaka installed as governor of Kanchi a certain "Mana Vira", whom Dr. Hultzsch believes to have been Manma Siddha Ganda Gopala of the Telugu Choda family.

[1] The legacy of Ravivarman's raids to Madurai and Kanchi was the emergence of a new branch of the Venatu ruling family called "Desinganatu".

[3][2] The Sanskrit – Tamil inscriptions of Ravivarman, and those assumed to be engraved by him, can be found at:[1][12] In the epigraphs, he describes himself as the Samgramadhira i.e. the one firm in battle, the descendant from the Chandra Kula and the Yadava line, the overlord of Kerala, the Kupaka, the Lord of the Kolamba city, the Bhoja of the South, the Devotee of Sri Padmanabha, the son of Jayasimha and the Kulasekhara monarch.

He supposedly wrote the famous Sanskrit drama Pradymnabhyudayam specifically for the purpose of being staged in the Sri Padmanābha Swāmi temple in Travancore.

[11][4] As stated by Vielle, the Jaiminiya Samhita of the Brahmanda Purana was probably composed in Kerala under reign of Ravivarman Kulasekhara.