Eḻuttaccan

Indian poet

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place in Malayalam literature

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    In South Asian arts: Period of the Tamil Cōḷa Empire (10th–13th century)

    …flowering in the 16th-century poet Eḻuttaccan (Father [or Leader] of Letters), who popularized the kiḷippāṭṭu (“parrot song”), a genre in which the narrator is a parrot, a bee, a swan, and so on. His outstanding works are Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇam, Bhāratam, and Bhāgavatam, all based on Sanskrit originals yet powerfully re-created…

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