[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c7.1907 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1907 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1907 - **Language:** English ### [c7.1907](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1907) KAMBAR. A celebrated Tamil poet. He was born in a poor family. At the orders of the King many poets wrote the story of Rāmāyaṇa in Tamil. But Kambar’s work was accepted as the best. This is the renowned Kamba Rāmāyaṇa. Kambar has written many other poems of which the important ones are Sarasvatī Antādi and Kāñcī Purāṇa. It is said that unintelligent children of Tamil nāḍu are even now given sand from the burial ground of Kambar to induce intelligence into them. The (—r) suffix in Kambar is plural denoting respect. (See under ‘Bhadrakālī’). - [Previous: c7.1906](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1906) - [Next: c7.1908](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1908) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1907](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1907) · Pramāṇa