Slightly OT. Does the current generation people, with the surname 'Sambuvarayar' mean they are descendants of the same Sambuvarayar of PS? I am asking because, some of my relatives have that surname and curious to know :)
sambuvaryar descend from valvil ori. vairam you were working on them for a post - was there any mention of their flag.
ori - expert archer - but bow and arrow is chera hail from kolli hill - maybe a flag with a hill depiction kolli hill - remember reading article of Dr RN in his site, kollipurai i think - about a coin. where he gave name could be Koll ( killer) ee - bee. hmm also there is a legend of a spectacularly sculpted lady goddess on the face of the hills, revered in sangam verses - but not found to this day
some verses which the poets who witnessed valvil ori shooting a single arrow through an elephant, a tiger, a pig and a deer - wrote. maybe tamil experts can read and see if there is any ref to any banner / standard or flag in this.
incidentally in kadambur maligai - VT will take a dig at Kandamaran reminding him of his ancestry from valvil ori!! kalki had this knack of inserting historical titbits into his writing...amazing
The Malayamans issued copper coins of quadrilateral shape which carried their royal emblem "Horse" sometime facing left or sometime to right. In some of the older coins (early coins) a legend "Malayaman" above the horse motif decorated the coin obverse. Most of their coins, on the reverse carried the symbolical map of their territory "A wide curved river with fishes flowing in it, and a hillock on side of the river". This basically depicts the kind of territory they ruled. The Malayaman coins generally weighed between 2 to 4 gms and are of thin fabric unlike the contemporary Cheras.