Korran, also known as Korra and Pittan-Korran, historic Tamil chief of Kudiramalai, ancient Jaffna kingdom
:"Annius Plocamus, a freedman, having farmed the customs of the Red Sea, was, while sailing along the coast of Arabia over fifteen days, driven by contrary winds into Hippuros, a port of Taprobane, where he was entertained with kindly hospitality by the king. In six months' time he acquired a thorough knowledge of the Tamil language."
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Korran and his father Pittan are mentioned as part of a genealogy of Chera kings in the Pugalur inscriptions of Karur district in the 2nd century AD, the ancient capital of the Chera dynasty.
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Inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi script from the late 1st century AD bearing his name (Korra-Puman - Korra The Chieftain) were excavated on an amphora fragment at the international Roman trading port of Berenice Troglodytica in present day Egypt.
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His contemporaries, Athiyamān Nedumān Añci of Tagadur and Pajayan Maran of Madurai belonged to the same Tamil horseman tribe and were Velir aristocrats.
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He was a contemporary of the famous horseman and chief Korran of Kudiramalai, a general of the Cheras.