Many anecdotes and stories about Kodungallur Kovilakam are part of folklore. This page is dedicated to such anecdotes and stories
1. Anecdote about Kodungallur Kunjikuttan Thampuran
Hearing about Kodungallur Kunjikuttan Thampuran translating Mahabharatham from Sanskrit to Malayalam, the popular poet Vallathol, who established Kalamandalam, went to see him.
Thampuran was concentrating on a thick volume and dictating at lightning speed. Vallathol thought Thampuran must be dictating what he had already written in the book.
Coming closer, and to his surprise, he found that Thampuran reading the text in Sanskit and dictating the translation in Malayalam.
Reference: http://waterfriend.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/instant-poet-kodungallur-kunjukuttan-thampuran/
2. A story about Kodungallur Kunjikuttan Thampuran, sent by a reader (Thanks to Ms. Lathika Menon for taking the effort for sending this to us)
This happened between Kunjikuttan Thampuran and his daughter Saraswathy
His daughter was asking him to buy balapadam and thampuran had no money to buy one for her.. since she was keep on troubling him, thampuran wrote the following and asked her to take it to the shop owner
‘balashikha kalatu nnu
bala puthri saraswathi
alattu theerthu vetteku
vila pinna tharamedo’
and she got the book
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