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Ananthapadmanabhan Nadar

                     Ananthapadmanabhan Nadar was born at a house of 64 rooms in Thachanvilai in Kannannoor in the Venad nation in them Kollam year Chingam 24, 873 (1698 A.D.) to Thanumalaya Perumal Asan and Lekshmi Devi. Thachan vilai islocated in the present day Veyyannoor Village of the Kalkulam Taluk in Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu state in India.

His father named him Ananthan Perumal, after the name of his grandfather. He had two brothers- Ponnam Perumal and Mayakonda Perumal –and two sisters – Thankapazham and Saraswathi Devi. His maternal uncle called him Padmanabhan. It was his pet name. Some of his relatives called him either as Babu Arasan or as Ela Veera Rajan. Later, King Marthanda Varma clubbed Ananthan and Padmanabhan and called him Ananthapadmanabhan. Thanumalaya Perumal, was a descendant of the Thiruppapur Royal Family. This family traces its origin to a kingdom called Ay kingdom and later Chera kingdom. Thanumalaya Perumal had over one hundred slaves. Thanumalaya Perumal had been the Principal Commander of King Rama Varma. He had been in charge of making weapons. Moreover, he was in charge of the armoury of Venad. Besides, he was the head of 108 martial arts - called kalari - training centres

Ananthapadmanabhan Nadar in his younger age become the army commander in travancore army he helped King marathanda varma to excute his enimies and take his throne as king of Travancore thus he become very to the king .During the battle of colachel Ananthapadmanabhan Nadar with the help of 108 kalaries with there leader uthayamarthanda nadar of parunativillai colachel ,Erulan Nadar of kodumutty and with other heads of kalari they fought the war with the dutch armies in colachel at the end of the war the dutch army were surrender and the taken as prisoners to the kung Marthanda varma.