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Akshara Slokam (അക്ഷര ശ്ലോകം) is a traditional way of Sloka chanting, a poetic entertainment developed in the Malayalam (മലയാളം) language of Kerala, India. It is in a classical format with strict rules on the meter of quatrains called slokas or mukthaka.
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Daiva Daśakam (Ten Verses To God: The Universal Prayer) is a prayer penned by Narayana Guru circa 1914. [1] [2] In 2009, the Kerala state government recommended that it should become the national prayer of India. [3]
The Malayalam script is a Vatteluttu alphabet extended with symbols from the Grantha alphabet to represent Indo-Aryan loanwords. [8] The script is also used to write several minority languages such as Paniya, Betta Kurumba, and Ravula. [9] The Malayalam language itself was historically written in several different scripts.
Omanathinkal Kidavo (Malayalam: ഓമന തിങ്കള് കിടാവോ) is a lullaby in Malayalam that was composed by Irayimman Thampi on the birth of Maharajah Swathi Thirunal of Travancore. To date, it remains one of the most popular lullabies in the Malayalam language.
Other contributions include Nadatrayam (Poetry Collection), Bharata Brihad Tarika (Translation), Bharathiya Samskarathinu Jaina Mathathinte Sambhavana (Contribution of Jain Religion to Indian Culture) (Study) and a Hindi-English-Malayalam Trilingual Dictionary. [4] The ghazal he composed in 1958 was the first in that field in Malayalam. [2]
Poonthanam Nambudiri (1547–1640 CE) was a famous poet and a devotee of Guruvayurappan, who lived in Keezhattoor in what is now Malappuram district, Kerala, India.He is remembered for his masterpiece, Jnanappana which means "the song of divine wisdom" in Malayalam.
K. Satchidanandan (born 28 May 1946) is an Indian poet [1] and critic, writing in Malayalam and English.A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist and translator, [2] he is the former editor of Indian Literature journal and the former secretary of Sahitya Akademi. [3]