Panchalankurichi - Polygar

Polygar

According to tradition, Ketti Pommu, who founded the Katabomman line of chiefs at Panchalamkurichi, served under the Pandyas and gained from them the possession of that territory.” “Each of the later Polygar was … called Kattaboma Nayaka, this name being the family title.” Under Polygar Jagavira Pandiya Kattabomman (ob. 1791), the father of the celebrated Veerapandiya Kattabomman, Panchalamkurichi was the leader of the Eastern Bloc of Nayak polegars.