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Malayalam devotional poet

This article is about Malayalam devotional poet. For the Kerala caste, see Ezhuthachan (caste).

Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan (Malayalam:[t̪uɲdʒɐt̪ːə̆ɾaːmaːnudʒɐneɻut̪ːɐtːʃʰɐn], 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 Thunchaththu 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 brahmins of kerala was reluctant to accept success even in his own lifetime seems to have been great. Later he and his followers shifted to a village near Palakkad, further east into the Kerala, and established a hermitage (the "Ramananda ashrama") and a Brahmin village there. This institution probably housed both Brahmin and Sudra literary students. The school eventually pioneered the "Ezhuthachan movement", associated with the concept of popular Bhakti, in Kerala

     The various believes behind the birth of Thunchath Ezhuthachan, the creed and the clad to which he belonged, were proved to be just concocted myths rather than facts but the historical research and studies have revealed that ezhuthachan was born in 16th century( years back) to Narayan an Ezhuthachan and Lakshmikutty Amma who were belonged to Ezhuthachan community at Thunchanparamabu near thrikandiyur, a part of Alathiyor Gramam,near Tirur,Malapuram was the youngest child of that to the political and social atrocities prevailing at that time,the thunchan family was forced to leave their native place and settle in Telungu province along with the remaining RAMANUJA CULT to which thunjan family belonged. At that time Thunchath Ezhuthachan must have been 16 or 18 years old. Under the influence of his brother Thunchan,joined the Ramanuja Mutt run by the Ramanujan Sect under that patronage of Vijaya Nagar kings. With the knowledge acquired from that institution he become a highly learned scholar and teacher In the same the Talikotta war thuncahn along with his family left the Telungu provice to Kerala and settled at Chittur near chittur he established a Sree Rama temple and a mutt near the river “Shokanashini” and took up teaching and leading a brhamacharya he completed the great epics ramayanam and mahabharatha. At this died(Samadhi) at the age of 80 at date of death is in the “Uthram” star in the month of “Dhanu”.The real memories of Thunchath Ezhuthachan still lives in and around Chittur.
Thunchath Ezhuthachan belonged to the Ezhuthachan caste without any iota of doubt. In kerala history 15th and 16th centuries were culturally, socially and intellectually most degraded era. Ezhuthachan’s life and literature was an antidote to this degradation and stagnation. The period from 12th to 16th centuary is considered as Namboothiri era in kerala history. Ezhuthachan was born during the last decades of Namboothiri era. Ezhuthachan inaugurated o

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 s. That was how 'Karkitaka' Maasam (Karkitaka month) became 'Ramayana Maassam', the month Ezhuthachan is specially revered and remembered.

Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan was known as the 'Father of Malayalam language and literature.' In Malayalam the word 'Thunchan' means the youngest, though he was one of the eldest among vernacular poets who had made the Bhakti cult popular among people of the region. 'Ezhuthachan' means 'Father of writing.' He was born in in a place near Thrikandiyoor Shiva Temple, Tirur Taluka of Malappuram district, Kerala. The year of his death was marked AD.

The Malayalam version of the 'Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilipaatt' triggered a spiritual revolution across the Malayalam speaking region as laymen could access epic reading for their spiritual contentment in their local dialect. The impact of the revolution still continues as the generation continues to pass on the custom of reading the entire Adhyatma Ramayanam' over a m