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Parvathi Bayi was born in 1850 as the daughter of Bharani Thirunal Amma Thampuran of Utsava Madom Palace in Mavelikara.
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Their family was from North Malabar (Kolathunad) and settled in Mavelikara. In the year 1857, the problem facing Maharajah Uthram Thirunal Marthanda Varma of Travancore was of severe gravity. Pooradom Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi had an elder son, Hastham Thirunal.
As in the past cases, adoption would be the only recourse for the perpetuation of the royal line and the Maharajah wrote thus to the Paramount Power.
In the month of November 1857 the adoption was sanctioned by the Paramount power and the two girls were adopted into the royal family and installed as the Senior and Junior Ranis of Attingal from Mavelikara Uthsava Madom Palace. After two years in 1859 the Maharajah Uthram Thirunal Marthanda Varma decided to get the Ranies married and three young suitors were presented to them.
One of them was Kerala Varma of Changanassery, Lakshmipuram Palace the grandnephew of the Raja Raja Varma Koil Thampuran. The second was Kerala Varma from Kilimanoor Palace while the third was a Ravi Varma, also from Kilimanoor Palace.
Raja Ravi Varma was married to Bhageerathi Thampuratti from Mavelikara Uthsava Madom Palace.
