King · Folk · South India · Pandalam, Kerala
Rajasekhara of Pandalam
The childless king who found the infant Ayyappa by the Pamba, named him Manikandan for the bell at his neck, and after the boy's return with tigress's milk built the shrine at Sabarimala where the god's arrow fell.
Sources: Sabarimala: Mythology — Kerala Tourism (Government of Kerala) · see Rajasekhara of Pandalam's web