Kodungallur Kunjikkuttan Thampuran

Kodungallur Kunjikkuttan Thampuran
Born(1864-09-08)September 8, 1864
DiedJanuary 22, 1913(1913-01-22) (aged 48)

Kodungallur Kunjikkuttan Thampuran (1864 - 1914) was a Malayalam poet and prominent Sanskrit scholar of Kerala. His birth-name was Rama Varma. He is famous for his single-handed, word-by-word translation of entire Mahabharata within 874 days for which he gained the epithet Kerala Vyasa (lit. 'the Vyāsa of Kerala').

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