Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu

Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu is the most popular Malayalam version of the Sanskrit Hindu epic Ramayana.

It is a retelling of the Sanskrit work Adhyatma Ramayana in Kilippattu (bird song) format.

[5] Tradition ascribes the authorship of the Sanskrit Adhyatma Ramayana to Ramananda since it is said to be an integral part of the Brahmanda Purana.

[citation needed] However, some scholars attribute it to the period 14th - 15th century CE and the author as unknown.

[6] This is the same work which was translated by Thunchathu Ezhuthachan into Malayalam in the form of Kilippattu, a South Indian genre in which a parrot recites the text to the poet.

Rama and Sita , with Hanuman , and Rama's three brothers Lakshmana , Bharata , and Shatrughna .
A page from a copy of the Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu written in the 1870s.