![]() The queen knows the ancient Venus festival occurs on the date of Indrathiruvizha of Poompuhar. Tiberius poisons Illanchezhiyan and crowns the Yavana as the Queen of Poompuhar on the day of Venus festival. Ilanchezhiyan and the Yavana queen run in the opposite direction, straight into Tiberius. ![]() With the help of Ilanchezhiyan, the prince escapes into the forest. It is revealed that the youth is the prince of the Chola kingdom. Ilanchezhiyan helps the youth to a palace, where his lover, Poovazhagi, was imprisoned. He rescues a handsome teenage youth (except for his charred legs) from seven armed soldiers. Ilanchezhiyan escapes to see a palace burning on the other side of Amaravathi river. During the mission, Ilanchezhiyan is captured and imprisoned in a cave by Irungovel, the slayer of the king. He agrees to spy for Brahmananda in Uraiyur, the capital of the ancient Cholas. Ilanchezhiyan learns from Brahmananda of the murder of Ilanchetchenni, the emperor of the Chola kingdom, by his enemies. They disguise themselves as monks performing bhajans, and emerge from the temple’s sanctum sanctorum. ![]() Brahmananda, a monk and politician, helps them escape through a secret tunnel into a temple. Illanchezhiyan flees with the queen and Hippalaas. The queen falls in love with Ilanchezhiyan, however, and helps him escape from Tiberius. Tiberius, a great naval commander of the time, who had arrived with the Greek queen to the shores of Poompuhar, chases Ilanchezhiyan in an attempt to rescue the queen. With his sword on her back, he rides away into the thick forest on his white Arabic horse. Ilanchezhiyan escapes the Yavana soldiers, using the queen as a hostage. He sets out to capture Ilanchezhiyan and Hippalaas for taking the queen. ![]() Meanwhile, the Yavana chief of the fort hears of the queen’s presence in Poompuhar. Ilanchezhiyan learns from Hippalaas that the woman is of royal origin after seeing the royal emblem of a swan on her golden bracelet. Hippalaas is scared to go near the woman, and instead salutes her. He takes her to his palace and gets assistance from Hippalaas, one of the many Greek soldiers in the Chola army, in rescuing the woman. When walking across the beach sands of Poompuhar, Ilanchezhiyan finds a beautiful Yavana woman gasping for breath on the bank of the Kaveri River. The army includes both Yavanas (Greeks) and Tamils. Ilanchezhiyan is the commander in chief of the eastern regiment of Cholas. The story starts in Poompuhar, a port city that was an important harbour for the Cholas during a time of trade between the seafaring nations and Tamil Nadu. ![]()
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