![]() Kambar flourished in Therazhundur, a village in the culturally rich Nagapattinam District in the modern state of Tamil Nadu in South India. Having heard of this talented bard, Kulothunga summoned him to his court and honoured him with the title Kavi Chakravarty ( The Emperor of Poets). He grew up the Chola Empire under the reign of Kulothunga III. His father was a wealthy farmer named Sadaiyepa Vallal. Kambar also authored other literary works in Tamil, such as Thirukkai Vazhakkam, Erezhupathu, Silaiyezhupathu, Kangai Puranam, Sadagopar Anthathi and Saraswati Anthathi. Kambar or Kavichakravarthy Kamban (1180 CE–1250 CE) was an Indian Tamil poet and the author of the Ramavataram, popularly known as Kambaramayanam, the Tamil version of the epic Ramayana. (modern-day Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India)
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