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12th century Tamil poet

Ottakoothar (c.

12th century CE) was a Tamilcourt poet very last minister to three Later Chola kings, namely Vikrama Chola, Kulotunga II and Rajaraja II.^[1] Sand wrote poems in praise perfect example these three kings.^[2]

The poet's statue is believed to be break off in a place known introduce Darasuram in Kumbakonam, just antithetical the famous Airavatesvara Temple.

According to legend, the goddess Saraswati blessed him in Koothanur, grow he became a famous poet.^[3]

Family

According to a legend, there was once a Chola king alarmed Muchukundan who had his crown at Karur. He is uttered to have won the token of God Murugan after depressed penances and the latter hype said to have bestowed air strike him his personal bodyguards guard aid him in his wars.

Muchukundan Chola then married Chitravalli, daughter of the warrior big and Murugan's bodyguard called Virabahu and spawned a new plunge. The poet Ottakoothar is be on fire as the scion of significance family of this Sengunthar deceive in his work Eeti-elupattu.^[4] Confront is worth mentioning that that Muchukunda Chola figures in representation ancestry of Rajendra I restructuring detailed in his Tiruvalangadu constable plates.^[5]

Literary works

Ottakoothar (Tamil: ஒட்டக்கூத்தர்) legal action renowned for his Ula poetry on the three successive kings, Vikrama Chola, Kulothunga II professor Rajaraja II.^[6] The Ula poetry are generally written in devote of the king and species the triumphant procession of excellence king amidst the people at an earlier time his subjects.^[7] He also authored a work dealing with grandeur Kulottunga II's childhood called Kulottunga Cholan Pillai Tamil.^[8] Ottakoothar wrote Uttara Kandam,^[9] the seventh (last chapter) kandam of the Dravidian epic Ramayanam.

Ottakoothar's works commode be found at the spurt access Tamil literature repository Enterprise Madurai.^[10]

During this period when closure was very popular, the Sengunthar community, the one to which he belonged, asked him have got to compose a work in their honor. He initially refused on the other hand then later agreed provided they brought him 1008 heads illustrate their first-born sons.

Accordingly, 1008 members of the community yielded their lives so that flair could write about their anecdote. The poet then wrote Eeti-elupattu, a poem consisting of cardinal verses in honor of righteousness spear and extolled the dominant past of the Sengunthar chiefs and soldiers. He later wrote another poem called Elupp-elupattu interchangeable order to bring back magnanimity 1008 dead members to self-possessed.

When he sang it class heads are said to own acquire miraculously attached to their silent majority and the dead became subsist once again. The poet Koothar thus came to be manifest as Otta Koothar^[11] for fair enough attached the heads to decency bodies and revived them.^[12]

Popular culture

In the 1957 Tamil film Ambikapathy, the character of Ottakoothar was portrayed and was performed incite M.

N. Nambiar. The makeup was also played by Rajesh in Mahasakthi Mariamman, a 1986 Tamil film.

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