Thunjathu ramanujan ezhuthachan biography books
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Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan - Father of Malayalam, guardian of a culture
• Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan lived in the 17th century, or the 16th century. He was born at Trikkantiyur (Trkkantiyur) in the Tirur municipality, Malappuram, Kerala, India. His birthplace is now known as Thunjan Parambu. According to Arthur Coke Burnell, he was a low-caste man who goes under the name Tunjatta Eḻuttacchan, a native of Trikkaṇḍiyûr in the present [] district of Malabar. He lived in the seventeenth century, but his real name is forgotten; Tunjatta being his house or family-name, and Eḻuttacchan (=schoolmaster) indicating his caste. In , Burnell actually saw the manuscript of the Bhagavata translated and adapted by Thunchaththu, allegedly copied by his sister, preserved at Puzhakkal in the Chittur taluk, and wrote in his book published in The authors stool, clogs, and staff are preserved in the same place; it thus looks as if Tunjatt • Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan refined the Malyalam language style and wrote his works for ordinary people, incorporating whatever is good with a strong sense of righteousness and worship. His contribution to the Malayalam language through the 'Adhyathma Ramayanam' (a translation of the Ramayana) and 'Mahabharatham' (a translation of the Mahabharata) is unparalleled and his contribution in the cultural level is immense. Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan was a Malayalam devotional Poet, translator and linguist from Kerala, South India. He has been called the, Father of Modern Malayalam or alternatively, the Father of Modern Malayalam literature or The Primal poet in Malayalam. His main works generally are based on Sanskrit compositions. Linguists are unanimous in assigning Adhyatma Ramayanam and S
The Bhakti cult made Malayalam language richer and modern. Its socio-cultural influence among natives of Kerala was so deep, that it remains equally powerful through the last nearly five centuries. Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan's epic translations into local dialect in 'kilipaatt' form along with other poets belonging to the same cult, brought a self-respect to a community that would have otherwise been trapped into a cultural mess at the cost of semantic religions influence. Today, every Malayalam speaking Hindu home and temple accommodates this literature as an inseparably sacred spiritual piece. Ezhuthachans 'Adhyatma Ramayanam' kilipaatt shows the language could set a strong base for socio-cultural revaluation and spiritualism more popular among natives. Generations kept changing hands in this culture, more vigorously when its greatness was convinced since the s. That was Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan : The Father of Modern Malayalam literature