Date and authorship A page from a copy of the Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu written in the 1870s. The month of Karkitakam in the Malayalam calendar is celebrated as the Ramayana recitation month and Ramayana is recited in Hindu houses and temples across Kerala. Recitation of Adhyathmaramayanam Kilippattu is very important in Hindu families in Kerala. Ezhuthachan used the Grantha-based Malayalam script to write his Ramayana, although the Vatteluttu writing system was the traditional writing system of Kerala then.
It is a retelling of the Sanskrit work Adhyatma Ramayana in kilippattu (bird song) format. It is believed to have been written by Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan in the early 17th century, and is considered to be a classic of Malayalam literature and an important text in the history of Malayalam language. Malayalam version of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana Rama and Sita, with Hanuman, and Rama's three brothers Lakshmana, Bharata, and Shatrughna.Īdhyathmaramayanam Kilippattu is the most popular Malayalam version of the Sanskrit Hindu epic Ramayana.
