

Nambi meanwhile notifies Aditha Karikalan that Ponniyin Selvan is alive both Kundavai and Aditha Karikalan hurry to the Viharam, where Ponniyin Selvan is being cured. Nambi disguises himself and rescues Vandiyadevan, who rushes to meet Kundavai and notifies her of Ponniyin Selvan's existence she professes her feelings for him. Later he discloses to Nandini that he had seen Oomai Rani, who resembles her and is apparently her mother in return, Nandini spares Vandiyadevan from death. Nandini, Ravidasan and others conspire to assassinate Aditha Karikalan, Sundara Chozhar and Ponniyin Selvan at the same time and Nandini divulges that she plans to kill Aditha Karikalan in Kadambur, where he would be coming the captured Vandiyadevan, pretending to be unconscious, hears this.

Elsewhere, Madhurantakan proclaims himself as successor to the throne, receives support from Shivan Adiyars and allies with Khottiga, Rashtrakuta king, who desires to avenge being defeated by Aditha Karikalan in a battle, by marrying his daughter. They see Ravidasan and his fellow perpetrators approaching and hence, Vandiyadevan misdirects them and gets himself seized. They chance upon Azhwarkadiyan Nambi and Sendhan Amudhan, who suggests rushing Ponniyin Selvan to Buddhist monks for treatment. Vallavaraiyan Vandiyadevan and Poonguzhali row with a survived and severly ill Ponniyin Selvan, who recollects being rescued by Oomai Rani from being drowned in the sea. Ravidasan and other members of Pandya Aabathudavigal wish to make sure that Ponniyin Selvan is dead. Presently, Arulmozhi Varman alias Ponniyin Selvan's presumed death disheartens the empire Parthibendran Pallavan meets with Nandini on the coast and she manipulates him to misdirect Aditha Karikalan to Kadambur for the apparent well-being of the empire.
