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'''Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan''' ({{Audio|Ml-തുഞ്ചത്ത് രാമാനുജൻ എഴുത്തച്ഛൻ.oga|pronunciation|help=no}}, {{transl|ml|ISO|Tuñcattŭ Rāmānujan Eḻuttacchan}}) ([[Floruit|''fl.'']] 16th century) was a [[Malayalam]] devotional poet, translator and linguist.<ref name=":10">{{Cite book|title=The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism|publisher=Blackwell Publishing, Wiley India|year=2003|isbn=9780470998694|editor-last=Flood|editor-first=Gavin|location=New Delhi|pages=173–74|chapter=The Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam|doi=10.1002/9780470998694}}</ref> He was one of the prāchīna kavithrayam (old triad) of Malayalam literature, the other two being [[Kunchan Nambiar]] and [[Cherusseri Namboothiri|Cherusseri]]. He has been called the "Father of Modern [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]] Literature", and the "Primal Poet in Malayalam".<ref name=":5" /> He was one of the pioneers of a major shift in Kerala's literary culture (the domesticated religious [[textuality]] associated with the [[Bhakti movement]]).<ref name=":Pollock479">{{Cite book|last=Freeman|first=Rich|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520228214/literary-cultures-in-history|title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|publisher=University of California Press|year=2003|pages=479–81|chapter=Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala|isbn=9780520228214}}</ref> His work is published and read far more than that of any of his contemporaries or predecessors in Kerala.<ref name=":Pollock481">{{Cite book|last=Freeman|first=Rich|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520228214/literary-cultures-in-history|title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|publisher=University of California Press|year=2003|pages=481|chapter=Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala|isbn=9780520228214}}</ref>

'''Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan''' ({{Audio|Ml-തുഞ്ചത്ത് രാമാനുജൻ എഴുത്തച്ഛൻ.oga|pronunciation|help=no}}, {{transl|ml|ISO|Tuñcattŭ Rāmānujan Eḻuttacchan}}) ([[Floruit|''fl.'']] 16th century) was a [[Malayalam]] devotional poet, translator and linguist.<ref name=":10">{{Cite book|title=The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism|publisher=Blackwell Publishing, Wiley India|year=2003|isbn=9780470998694|editor-last=Flood|editor-first=Gavin|location=New Delhi|pages=173–74|chapter=The Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam|doi=10.1002/9780470998694}}</ref> He was one of the prāchīna kavithrayam (old triad) of Malayalam literature, the other two being [[Kunchan Nambiar]] and [[Cherusseri Namboothiri|Cherusseri]]. He has been called the "Father of Modern [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]", the "Father of Modern [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]] Literature", and the "Primal Poet in Malayalam".<ref name=":5" /> He was one of the pioneers of a major shift in Kerala's literary culture (the domesticated religious [[textuality]] associated with the [[Bhakti movement]]).<ref name=":Pollock479">{{Cite book|last=Freeman|first=Rich|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520228214/literary-cultures-in-history|title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|publisher=University of California Press|year=2003|pages=479–81|chapter=Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala|isbn=9780520228214}}</ref> His work is published and read far more than that of any of his contemporaries or predecessors in Kerala.<ref name=":Pollock481">{{Cite book|last=Freeman|first=Rich|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520228214/literary-cultures-in-history|title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|publisher=University of California Press|year=2003|pages=481|chapter=Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala|isbn=9780520228214}}</ref>



He was born in a place called [[Thunjan Parambu|Thunchaththu]] in present-day [[Tirur]] in the [[Malappuram district]] of northern Kerala, in a traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] family.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book|last=Logan|first=William|title=Malabar|publisher=Asian Educational Services|year=2010|volume=I|location=New Delhi|pages=92–94|orig-year=1887|url = https://archive.org/details/malabarmanual0000loga/page/92/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Pollock|first=Sheldon|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520228214/literary-cultures-in-history|title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|publisher=University of California Press|year=2003|editor-last=Pollock|editor-first=Sheldon|pages=20|chapter=Introduction|isbn=9780520228214}}</ref> Little is known with certainty about his life.<ref name=":10" /> He was not from a brahmin community and for long brahmins of kerala was reluctant to accept him.His success even in his own lifetime seems to have been great.''<ref name=":8" />'' 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 [[Agraharam|Brahmin village]] there.<ref name=":Pollock481" /> This institution probably housed both [[Brahmin]] and [[Shudra|Sudra]] literary students.<ref name=":10" /> The school eventually pioneered the "Ezhuthachan movement", associated with the concept of popular [[Bhakti movement|Bhakti]], in Kerala.<ref name=":Pollock479" /> Ezhuthachan's ideas have been variously linked by scholars either with philosopher [[Ramananda]], who found the Ramanandi sect, or [[Ramanuja]], the single most influential thinker of devotional Hinduism.<ref name=":Pollock482" />

He was born in a place called [[Thunjan Parambu|Thunchaththu]] in present-day [[Tirur]] in the [[Malappuram district]] of northern Kerala, in a traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] family.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book|last=Logan|first=William|title=Malabar|publisher=Asian Educational Services|year=2010|volume=I|location=New Delhi|pages=92–94|orig-year=1887|url = https://archive.org/details/malabarmanual0000loga/page/92/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Pollock|first=Sheldon|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520228214/literary-cultures-in-history|title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|publisher=University of California Press|year=2003|editor-last=Pollock|editor-first=Sheldon|pages=20|chapter=Introduction|isbn=9780520228214}}</ref> Little is known with certainty about his life.<ref name=":10" /> He was not from a brahmin community and for long brahmins of kerala was reluctant to accept him.His success even in his own lifetime seems to have been great.''<ref name=":8" />'' 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 [[Agraharam|Brahmin village]] there.<ref name=":Pollock481" /> This institution probably housed both [[Brahmin]] and [[Shudra|Sudra]] literary students.<ref name=":10" /> The school eventually pioneered the "Ezhuthachan movement", associated with the concept of popular [[Bhakti movement|Bhakti]], in Kerala.<ref name=":Pollock479" /> Ezhuthachan's ideas have been variously linked by scholars either with philosopher [[Ramananda]], who found the Ramanandi sect, or [[Ramanuja]], the single most influential thinker of devotional Hinduism.<ref name=":Pollock482" />

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