Kaalingarayar - Kings of Kalinga Ganga dynasty (Eastern Ganga dynasty)
Vaanavarayar - Bana dynasty
Pallavarayar - Pallava dynasty
Palayakottai Mandradiyar - Chieftain
Cheran kootam - Chera dynasty
Pandya kootam - Pandya dynasty
Kannan(Kannuvan) - original Ganga rulers
Kadai - Kaadava dynasty
Elumathur kadai - chinna esamans (local landlords)
LANGUAGE OF GOUNDERS:
The language of the Gounders is the popular Coimbatore Bhashai or Kongu Tamil. It must have been a distinct language as it also shows relations with Eela Tamil, Prakrit-Aprabramsa and Kannada. It was earlier called Kangee or Gangee (கங்கி, the language of the Gangas). Mysore, Col. Wilks, records in his "History of Mysore".
"In the southern part of Mysore the Tamil language is at this day named the Gangee from being best known to them as the language of the people of Kankayam". Later mainstream Tamil assimilated the language yet preserving idiolectical differences and markers.
