[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) › c8.2736 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2736 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.2736 - **Language:** English ### [c8.2736](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2736) 1) General information. The illam (house) of this Nambūtiri who was a contemporary of Meppattūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭatiri was in Nenmeni amśa of the taluk of Valluvanāḍu in south Malabar. Though some say that his original name was Brahmadatta there are no sufficient records to support the statement. His Guru according to the work ‘Śrī Kṛṣṇakarṇāmṛta’ was a nambūtiri named Nīlakaṇṭha. Pūntānam had only ordinary education. He worshipped Kṛṣṇa at the temple of Guruvāyūr for a very long time and became a great devotee of Kṛṣṇa. He lived for ninety years. When he became very old he found it difficult to come to Guruvāyūr for worship and so one day he bade farewell to the deity. Then a voice from heaven said "Do not worry. I will be near you on your left side." He went and sat on a hill named Tirumāndha and to his astonishing ecstasy he found Kṛṣṇa sitting on his left side. He then constructed a temple and installed his deity Kṛṣṇa there and continued his worship. That was the Vāmapura (left place) of Pūntānam. - [Previous: c8.2735](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2735) - [Next: c8.2737](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2737) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2736](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2736) · Pramāṇa