There is a belief that he was compelled to get certificates from various learned people for doing that, There is also a story that the king did not want Kamban to use words which people do not commonly use. People believe that there were various protests when he wanted to dedicate it Lord Ranganatha of Sri Rangam temple. He made various changes in the story of Valmiki. 2.Translation of Valmiki Ramayanam from Sanskrit.Ī great philanthropist called THiruvennai Nallur Chadayappa Vallal financed his venture.The grateful Kamba mentions about him in various places in the epic.In fact he is picturized as the one who handed over the crown to sage Vasishta during carnation of Rama.The great poet could never leave out any chance for pretty long descriptions in various places.He mentions that Kausalya went to the temple of Ranganatha (the family deity of Dasaratha) as soon as she heard about Coronation of Rama.
It is read every year with great reverence in the Karkidaga montha fondly called by Malayalis as the “Ramayana month”. And the first great Malayalam poet translated in to Malayalam poem, as if it was related by a parrot.Even today a copy of this book is preserved like a treasure by every Hindu Malayali in his home. Rama by that time was considered as full Avathara of Vishnu and there are more than ten prayers addressed to Rama by various characters of Rama including Kousalya, Khara, Khabanda, Sabari and so on. Later I found that I was the only who has translated this great book in to English and put in the web.My search also indicates that though there is an English book translating Adhyathma Ramayanam from Sanskrit to English, there was no translation of this extremely popular Malayalam book.This Ramayana is a transcreation of Valimiki Ramayana supposed to be authored by the great Veda Vyasa.
I took it up for translation and completed it in 4 months. It was in April 2012 that one of my friends requested me to translate Adhyathma Ramayana of Thunjathu Ezhuthachan from Malayalam, which was itself a translation from Sanskrit, so that it can be read during the Karkidaga Masa.It had 6 Kandams, 119 chapters and 4200 verses.
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