# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kodungallur-kunjikkuttan-thampuran
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:37:17.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kodungallur-kunjikkuttan-thampuran"
name: "Kodungallur Kunjikkuttan Thampuran"
slug: "kodungallur-kunjikkuttan-thampuran"
description: "Kodungallur Kunjikkuttan Thampuran was a Malayalam poet and prominent Sanskrit scholar of Kerala. His birth-name was Rama Varma. He is famous for his single-handed, word-by-word translation of entire Mahabharata within 874 days for which he gained the epithet Kerala Vyasa."
tagline: "Poet, scholar (1868–1913)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Kodungallur_Kunjikkuttan_Thampuran.png/330px-Kodungallur_Kunjikkuttan_Thampuran.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1868-09-18"
deathDate: "1913"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.20828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "कोङ्ङल्लूर् कुञ्ञिक्कुट्टन् तम्पुरान्"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "കൊടുങ്ങല്ലൂർ കുഞ്ഞിക്കുട്ടൻ തമ്പുരാൻ"
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    title: "கொடுங்கல்லூர் குஞ்சிக்குட்டன் தம்புரான்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump