Sambuvarayar

The Sambuvarayas were Tamil chieftains of the Vanniyar community who held Tondai Nadu around Kanchipuram, with their hill capital at Padaiveedu. Under the imperial Cholas they governed Oyma Nadu as vassals. As Chola, Pandya and Hoysala power crumbled in the early fourteenth century, the family struck out on its own: Venrumankonda Sambuvaraya in 1322 and Rajanarayana Sambuvaraya in 1337 dated their inscriptions by their own regnal years.

Rajanarayana allied with the first Vijayanagara kings against the Madurai Sultanate. Around 1350 Vijayanagara armies defeated him and reinstated him as a tributary. After his death about 1362 Kumara Kampana annexed Tondai Nadu, storming the fortress of Rajagambhiranmalai above Padaiveedu and slaying the last Sambuvaraya ruler.