Sandilyan's legal heirs declined the Government's offer to nationalise and provide solatium. The Government soon retracted its position saying that the offer was optional and that it would force those who did not want to lose royalty. This caused criticism from the legal heirs of Sundara Ramasami and Kannadasan.

In 2009, The Tamil Nadu Government announced its intention to nationalise Sandilyan's works (along with those of 28 other authors) and provide compensation to his legal heirs. Kamil Zvelebil once called him as the 'fourth most popular Tamil Writer'. As of 2009, many of them still remain in print, four decades after being first published. His historical novels were published in book form by Vanadhi Padhippagam and became best sellers. After leaving Kumudam, he unsuccessfully ran a weekly magazine called Kamalam. He was one of the very few Tamil writers to get a monthly salary from Kumudam for his novels. Sandilyan's most famous novels were serialised in Kumudam, a weekly Tamil magazine and was instrumental in increasing the circulation to a greater extent. Paalaivanathu pushpam and Sandha deepam were his earliest historical novels. He also started publishing in other magazines like Amudhasurabi. One of his first works was a self-published political novel called Balathkaaram. Tiberius, a semi-historic warrior of Roman empire plays a part in this Novel as an aide to the Roman princess.After his stint at the Hindustan Times he returned to work at Sudesamithran and started writing full-length novels. more ng Ilanchetchenni.The story line is spun around a chieftain named ilanchezhian and a Roman princess sent by the Roman king to take over the Tamil country under the confusing political situation arising after the death of Ilanchtchenni. The story is based in a historical background when the Chola king Karikalan was trying to ascend the throne after the murder of his father Ki. Review 2: This is a historical novel in Tamil by Sri. Ofcourse the book was too much descriptive but every word written was underlined by his extraordinary imagination which made me live at the periods of the Cholas.

At first, I was very much scared that I might not be able to finish it because I hated too much description in any novels and especially after my dad warned me of the same in this book too but I must thank Sandilyan for changing my taste.

Review 1: Yavana Rani was the first historial fictional work I had ever read in Tamil.

யவன ராணி [Yavana Rani] - 1 by Sandilyan