Kambar is one of the greatest Tamil poets. Kambar authored the tamil version of Ramayana, or the Story of Rama, one of the oldest epics in human history. The original version was written by Sage Valmiki (c.250 BC). This epic of 24,000 verses tells of a Raghuvamsa prince, Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by Ravana, a mighty emperor. In Hindu mythology Rama is considered to be the Seventh incarnation of God Vishnu, one of the Hindu holy trinity (Brahma and Shiva completing the trinity). The Tamil people are an ethnic group from South Asia with a recorded history going back more than two millennia. ... The Rāmāyaņa (Sanskrit: रामायण (a sandhi form of rāma-ayana = march or journey (Āyana) of Rāma) is part of the Hindu smriti, written by Valmiki. ... Maharishi Valmiki is the author of the Hindu epic Ramayana. ... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC - 250s BC - 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC Years: 255 BC 254 BC 253 BC 252 BC 251 BC - 250 BC - 249 BC 248 BC... Lord Rama (center) with wife Sita, brother Lakshmana and devotee Hanuman. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sita Devi SITA ... A dipiction of Ravana, Hindu Demon King of Lanka In Hindu mythology, Ravana (Devanagari: रावण, IAST Rāvaṇa; sometimes transliterated Raavana and as Ravan) is the principal antagonist of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses of the name Vishnu, see Vishnu (disambiguation). ... This article concerns the Hindu creator god, Brahma. ... Shiva (Sanskrit: शिवम् Hindi: शिव (when used to distinguish lordly status), and written Śiva in the official IAST transliteration, pronounced as () is a form of Ishvara or God in the later Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. ...

Kavi (poet) Kamban wrote Ramavatharam in his native Tamil language inspired by the Sanskrit Epic. Sanskrit ( संस्कृतम् ; pronunciation: ) is an Indo-European classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ...

Kamban was born in the 11th Century in Therazhundur, a village in the culturally rich Tanjavur district in the modern state of Tamil Nadu in South India. Kamban was a great scholar of India's two ancient and rich languages, Sanskrit (Indo-European) and Tamil (Dravidian).Mahavidwan R.Raghava Iyengar in a scholarly biography,Kavicakravarty Kamban writes in detail about this 12 th century poet. Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... A map of South India, its rivers, regions and water bodies. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred languages and dialects (443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and Southern Asia. ... The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan and Iran. ...

The Ramavataram or Kamba Ramayana of Kamban is an epic of over 10,000 verses, of 4-lines each. Kamba Ramayana is not a translation of the Sanskrit epic by Valmiki, but an original retelling of the story of the God Rama. The poetic work is well known for its similes. It is therefore so great that one is amazed by the imagination created. A simile is a figure of speech in which the subject is compared to another subject. ...

Legend has it that the entire episode was written in one night by Lord Ganesha. Ganesha is said to have written the poems that Kambar dictated to him during the night, as Kambar procrastinated the work till the day before the deadline set by the King. There is a saying that Kamban veetu kattu thariyum kavi paadum, loosesly meaning, Even Kamban's loom can pen a poem.

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Kavicakravarty Kambar,e-text byMahavidwan R.Raghava iyengar, R.Raghava iyengar