# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ilango-adigal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:47:35.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ilango-adigal"
name: "Ilango Adigal"
slug: "ilango-adigal"
description: "Ilango Adigal was a Jain monk, belonging to the Chera royal family, from the city of Vanci in southern India. He is traditionally credited as the author of the epic poem Cilappatikaram, one of the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature."
tagline: "Tamil Jain monk and author of Cilappatikaram"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MarinaBeach_IlangoAdigal_statue_2Feb2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "200"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.72135066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ایلانگو ادیگل"
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    title: "Іланго Абігал"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump