# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elara
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:19.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elara"
name: "Elara"
slug: "elara"
description: "Ellalan, also referred to as Elara the Pious, and by the honorific epithet Manu Needhi Cholan, was a member of the Tamil Chola dynasty in Southern India, who upon capturing the throne became king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom, in present-day Sri Lanka, from 205 BCE to 161 BCE."
tagline: "King of Anuradhapura from 205 BCE to 161 BCE"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MadrasHighCourtManuNeedhiCholanStatue.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "-235"
deathDate: "-161"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.24
  momentum:             0.7850467289719627
  historical:           10.59564933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elara"
    title: "Elara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elalan"
    title: "Elalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elalan"
    title: "Elalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellalan"
    title: "Ellalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellalan"
    title: "Ellalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elara"
    title: "Elara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%98%EB%9E%84%EB%9E%80"
    title: "엘랄란"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%8E%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%E0%B5%BB"
    title: "എല്ലാളൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellalan"
    title: "Ellalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0_(%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C)"
    title: "Элара (царь)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%91%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BD%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A"
    title: "එල්ලාලන්"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "எல்லாளன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B3%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81"
    title: "ఎల్లాళను"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump