After lighting the evening lamp, they sit close to the ‘Nilavilakku’ or the traditional Kerala lamp and narrate the verses of ‘Adhyatma Ramayana’ (the Malayalam version of Ramayana). The reading of ...
It demonstrates the folk quality of humanizing god-like characters. Like the Mappila text, Kerala’s Ezuthaccan’s Adhyatma Ramayana also positions Rama as a human and god. Rama gracefully but ...