[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c19.s5.7 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s5.7 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s5.7 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s5.7) For some time after Cheruśśeri, only local songs and ballads, like some of the Vaḍakkan-pāṭṭukkaḷ, the Añju Tampurān-pāṭṭu and Eravikuṭṭipiḷḷa-pāṭṭu, were produced. These continued the old tradition of popular songs on contemporary events which ushered Malayālam literature into being. The great luminary after Cheruśśeri was the renowned Tuñcat Rāmānujan Eḻuttaccan who gave shape to modern Malayālam. His chief works were: Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇam Kiḷippāṭṭu, Bhāratam Kiḷippāṭṭu, Harināmakīrtanam, Cintāratnam—a work on Advaita Vedānta, and perhaps also Bhāgavatam Kiḷippāṭṭu and Dēvīmāhātmyam. It will be seen that he covers practically the whole range of Hindu mythology giving his own versions of the two great epics and Bhāgavatam, and did not neglect religion and philosophy. The Kiḷippāṭṭu reached its perfection in his hands, and he is hailed as the genius who conferred literary dignity on the daily speech of the common man by adapting it to the highest purposes of literary art. Eḻuttaccan's date is not settled beyond dispute, but he may be placed late in the sixteenth or early in the seventeenth century. - [Previous: c19.s5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s5.6) - [Next: c19.s5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s5.8) - [Up: c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s5) ## Linked texts (2) - [Adhyātmarāmāyaṇam Kiḷippāṭṭu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.bhasa.adhyatma-kilippattu) — Tuñcattu Rāmānujan Eḻuttacchaṉ 1550, Malayalam - [Devīmāhātmya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.devimahatmya) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s5.7) · Pramāṇa