Valli

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

No parents recorded in the default.

Parentage accounts

Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.

• Kanda retelling: birthThe adoptive hunter is unnamed in this passage.

  deity by descent in this account.

  • father: Siva MuniA Short Illustrated Kanda Puranam, Murugan Bhakti, prior lives and concluding marriage paragraphs (secondary)
  A Short Illustrated Kanda Puranam, Murugan Bhakti, prior lives and concluding marriage paragraphs (secondary)
• Kanda retelling: Sundara Valli’s prior lifePrior-life identity, not a second father in the same biological birth.

  deity by descent in this account.

  • father: VishnuA Short Illustrated Kanda Puranam, Murugan Bhakti, prior lives and concluding marriage paragraphs (secondary)
  A Short Illustrated Kanda Puranam, Murugan Bhakti, prior lives and concluding marriage paragraphs (secondary)

Names and tradition associations

• Sundara Valli Tamil · same recordA Short Illustrated Kanda Puranam, Murugan Bhakti, prior lives and concluding marriage paragraphs (secondary)

Variant accounts

• Prior-life sisterThe retelling pairs Sundara Valli with Amirta Valli as Vishnu’s daughters; Amirta Valli is later Indra’s daughter Teyvayanai/Devasena. The latter’s record is reserved to the Indra lane.A Short Illustrated Kanda Puranam, Murugan Bhakti, prior lives and concluding marriage paragraphs (secondary)

Domains

• consort of murugan
• kurinci hill country
• divine longing iccha shakti

Powers

• Guard the millet field of the hill-people
• Embody the power of divine longing (icchā-śakti)

Relations

• spouse: MuruganConsort of Murugan, won by the god in the guise of a hill hunter.Tamil Valli-Murugan devotional tradition (reference)
• child of: Siva MuniA Short Illustrated Kanda Puranam, Murugan Bhakti, prior lives and concluding marriage paragraphs (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Tirumurukarruppatai (Sangam corpus); Tamil Valli-Murugan devotional tradition; Kanda Puranam (reference)