> Not able to connect Panchavan Madevi with Pandya origin !
On rethinking this seems to be true. reason : Almost all pandiyan princesses who married cholas were identified as "Tennavai maadeviyar" and not as panchavan maadeviyar
Panchavan seems to have other means.
Like maadevadigal - which was misinterpreted as a name of buddist or jain origin. Writer Balakumaran in Udaiyar - had to force lot of imaginations to make rajaraja's daughter buddhist. MAADEVADIGAL IS A COMMON NAME. ADITYA HAD A DAUGHTER CALLED MAADEVADIGAL !