[1][7] He is described as the ruler of Thondi (on the Malabar Coast), the "land the mountain fence protects", and the king of Kuda Nadu.
[2] In a battle of against the Pandya ruler Nedum Chezhian, Mantharan Cheral was defeated and made captive.
After his court trial at Madurai he was locked in a fort "inside a bamboo forest surrounded by the crocodile lake".
The Chera later escaped, "unaided by strength and stratagem", from his cell and returned to his country and "continued to rule his loving people in peace, plenty and harmony for many more uninterrupted years".
[7] "...after a bright falling star - with a leg erupting backward, appeared in the sky, amidst the Adu (Aries) constellation, from the first leg of a Karthikai starday - past midnight, through to the Anusham starday in the first fortnight of the month of Pankuni (Phalguna), neither moving north nor east, staying aput in solitude as an island, with the North star wandering, the Mulam star rising opposite and passing above it, and the Mrikasirisham star staying low over the port of Thondi, on the seventh day Mantharan Cheral Irumporai died suddenly..."[5]The mentioned brightly visualized meteor that appeared in the said month of March and April might have been the Halley's Comet of February–April 141 CE (under the Aries across Phalguna).