Adhyathmaramayanam Kilippattu

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Rama and Sita, with Hanuman, and Rama's three brothers Lakshmana, Bharata, and Shatrughna.

Adhyathmaramayanam Kilippattu is the most popular

Grantha-based Malayalam script to write his Ramayana, although the Vatteluttu writing system was the traditional writing system of Kerala then.[4] Recitation of Adhyathmaramayanam Kilippattu is very important in Hindu families in Kerala. 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.[5]

Date and authorship

A page from a copy of the Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu written in the 1870s.

Tradition ascribes the authorship of the Sanskrit

Ramacharitamanasa.[6] This is the same work which was translated by Thunchathu Ezhuthachan into Malayalam in the form of kilippattu, a South Indian genre in which a parrot recites the text to the poet.[7]

Deviation from Valmiki Ramayana

  1. In Adhyatma Ramayana everyone praises and chants the hymn on Rama starting from
    Parasurama, Vibhishana, and Hanuman. This is absent in Valmiki's.[6]

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