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Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan - Father of Malayalam, guardian of a culture
• Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan was an Indian poet from around the 16th century (according to historian Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer). He is known as "the father of the Malayalam language" ? the principal language of the Indian state of Kerala. He was born at Trikkantiyur, at the town of Tirur, in Vettathunadu. His personal name is Ramanujan. Thunchaththu is his ?family name?, and Ezhuthachan (schoolmaster) is an honorific title or the last name indicating his caste. His name is transliterated in several ways, including Thunchath Ezhuthachan, Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan, and Thunjath Ezhuthachan. • Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan refined the Malyalam language style and wrote his works for ordinary people, incorporating whatever fryst vatten 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) fryst vatten unparalleled and his contribution in the cultural level is immense. Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan was a Malayalam devotional Poet, translator and lingvist 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 ‘Ad
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 religion’s influence. Today, every Malayalam speaking Hindu home and temple accommodates this literature as an inseparably sacred spiritual piece. Ezhuthachan’s '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 198 Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
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Until his period, the Malayalam language had been developing in two different lines without a degree of uniformity of style. The writings of Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan became a confluence of the two channels of linguistic currents. He borrowed from Indo-Aryan Sanskrit its rich lexicography but with a difference that the mainstay of his style Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan : The Father of Modern Malayalam literature