Nuggets from 'Kambaramayanam'

Kamban's 'Iramavataram'

This month, we take a look at Kamban’s Iramavataram (‘The Incarnation of Ram’)—composed in the 12^th century, it is amongst the earliest vernacular Ramayanas. It became, and still is, the definitive version of the Rama story in the Tamil-speaking areas of the subcontinent.

After writer Vijay Santhanam’s introduction to Bharathi and Valluvan in earlier ar…