Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan
Malayalam devotional poet
Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan (Malayalam: [t̪uɲdʒɐt̪ːə̆ ɾaːmaːnudʒɐn eɻut̪ːɐtːʃʰɐn] , Tuñcattŭ Rāmānujan Eḻuttacchan) (fl. 16th century) was a Malayalam devotional poet, translator and linguist. He was one of the prāchīna kavithrayam (old triad) of Malayalam literature, the other two being Kunchan Nambiar and Cherusseri. He has been called the "Father of Modern Malayalam Literature", and the "Primal Poet in Malayalam". He was one of the pioneers of a major shift in Kerala's literary culture (the domesticated religious textuality associated with the Bhakti movement). His work is published and read far more than that of any of his contemporaries or predecessors in Kerala.
He was born in a place called Thunchan Parambu in present-day Tirur in the Malappuram district of northern Kerala, in a traditional Hindu family. Little is known with certainty about his life. He was not from a brahmin community and for long, the brahmins of kerala were reluctant to accept him. His success even in his own lifetime seems to have been great.
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