His success even in his own lifetime seems to have been great. Little is known with certainty about his life. Įzhuthachan was born in the Thunchaththu home at present-day Tirur, in present-day Malappuram district of northern Kerala, in a traditional Hindu family. The number and circulation of his texts far outdo that of any other poet of premodern Kerala. He was one of the pioneers of a major shift in Kerala literary production (the domesticated religious textuality associated with the Bhakti movement). He has been called the "Father of Modern Malayalam", or, alternatively, the "Father of Modern Malayalam Literature", or the "Primal Poet in Malayalam". He was one of the members of the Pracheena Kavithrayam. ![]() 16th century) was a Malayalam devotional poet, translator and linguist from Kerala, south India. Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan ( pronunciation, Tuñcattŭ Rāmānujan Eḻuttacchan) (Malayalam: തുഞ്ചത്ത് രാമാനുജൻ
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