Ezhuthachan birth place

Biography of Thunjath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan

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Due to his devotion to the language, his influence and hard work on the acceptance of the Malayalam alphabet, and his extremely popular poetic works in Malayalam we are calling him the father of Malayalam language.

"Ezhuthachan" is a titled for a great male teacher or schoolmaster(Ezhuthamma - female counterpart). It is also the name of a caste in old India particularly in kerala.

He was born around years original name is still unknown. He is alternatively known as Thunjath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan or sometimes simply Ramanujan, but most often simply as Ezhuthachan.

Thunchaththu ezhuthachan biography templates pdf Ellis has noted that A Brahman without a father must be born of an unmarried female of that tribe, whose celibacy ought to have been inviolate: he is considered, therefore, illegitimate, and has scarcely an assignable place in society. Balakrishna Kurup said in his book, Viswathinte Kanappurangal, that Ezhuthachan belongs to the Ezhuthachan caste,and this opinion is supported by T. B Robert Downey Jr. The author?

Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan was born in the 17th century. The birth place of Ezhuthachan is now known as Thunjan people saying that he was born into a Chakkala Nair (low subcast among Nairs) was a low caste among Savarna hindu caste system of Kerala and among the Nair caste. Some legends are like Ezhuthachan's father was a Namboodiri Brahmin , and another sources claim that he was of the Ezhuthachan (sometimes called Kadupattan) A.C Burnel (noted Indologist) confirmly saying that he was born in the Ezhuthzchzn caste only.

There may have been many popular keerthanas, namam or japam by other poets in Malayalam language, but it was veritably impossible to find a single house in Kerala without Ezhuthachan's "Adhyathma ramayanam" .Also he wrote all these poems at the time of war, disease and famine.

All his works are in simple Malayalam language.

By this there is no doubt about his contribution to the literary level of the common man. Ezhuthachan taught the people to respect and worship the language and the alphabet, a level of culture which is difficult to find even in the modern era.

Thunchaththu ezhuthachan biography templates Combinations of the above two, as per Manipravalam. Mahakavi Kodungallore Kunhikuttan Thampuran, another poet, agreed. Since the song was wildly popular, the alphabet grew in use and popularity along with it. Until his period, the Malayalam language had been developing in two different lines without a degree of uniformity of style.

He created the Malayalam language style and wrote his works for ordinary people.
His contribution to the Malayalam language is unparalleled, and his contribution in the cultural level is immense. His style of writing the poems is unique. He is asking to a kili (parrot) to tell the Ramayana and Mahabharata and the poems are like the kili is chanting to him.

the name of these type of work is "kilippattu" (the song of parrot) His chief original works are Adhyatmaramayanam (a translation of the Ramayana , "Mahabharatham" (a translation of the Mahabharata) , Sundarakandam kilippattu.