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Vallikappen
Vallikappen is an honorific title conferred on members of the prominent land-owning "Valiaveettil" family of Aruvithura (present-day Erattupetta) in Kerala, India, by the Rajas of Poonjar . The title comes from "Valli" (the name of a Hindu goddess) and "kapath" (meaning "to protect" in Tamil). It therefore means the "Protector of Valli". As a title, the name is not very old. It is likely to have been conferred in the late 18th or early 19th centuries, as no earlier records have been found.
==Origins==
It is said that one Mathai Mappillai, a member of the Valiaveettil family (who are reputed to have settled down near the Aruvithura Church in the 12th century AD) had a piece of property within the Poonjar kingdom on which stood a shrine dedicated to Valli. The Poonjar royal family originally came from Madurai and their "kaula devatha" (family deity) was Meenakshi. As Valli was closely connected to Meenakshi, she too was held in high regard by the Poonjar chieftains. Mathai Mappillai was therefore given the honorific "Vallikappen" (one who protects Valli) in appreciation of the fact that, even though he was a Christian, he looked after the Hindu shrine with great deference and respect. Thus Christians came to be the traditional care-takers of a Hindu shrine. Today the name is used more or less as a family name by Mappillai's descendants.
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