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The '''Niranam poets''', also known as the '''Kannassan poets''', were three poets from the same family by the names of '''Madhava Panikkar''', '''Sankara Panikkar''', and '''Rama Panikkar'''. They hailed from [[Niranam]], a small village in southern [[Kerala]], India, near the town of [[Thiruvalla]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXluAAAAMAAJ|title=Social and cultural history of Kerala|last=Menon|first=A. Sreedhara|date=1979|publisher=Sterling|pages=335|language=en}}</ref> Their works mainly comprised translation and adaptation of Sanskrit epics and Puranic works and were for devotional purposes.<ref name=":2">{{cite book |title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia |editor-first=Sheldon I. |editor-last=Pollock |first=Rich |last=Freeman |chapter=Literary Culture of Pre-Modern Kerala |publisher=University of California Press |year=2003 |pages=465–468 |isbn=9780520228214 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak9csfpY2WoC&pg=PA465}}</ref> They lived between 1350 and 1450 [[Common Era|C.E]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/theniranampoets.htm|title=The Niranam Poets|website=Public Relations Department Kerala State Government|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014202734/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/theniranampoets.htm|archive-date=2014-10-14|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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It is believed that they all belonged to the same Kannassa family<ref name=":0" /> and that Madhava Panikkar and Sankara Panikkar were the uncles of Rama Panikkar, the youngest of the three.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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As Kannassa, they were probably Nair Panikkers or members of the [[Kaniyar]] [[Caste system in India|caste]], which makes their claim to mastery of [[Sanskrit]] a significant feature as Kaniyar, being adept in Astrology and Ayurveda, they were accepted by then the Kings <ref name=":2" /><br />
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Their works have been mostly assigned to the ''Pattu'' ''taxon''.<ref name=":2" /> It revived the [[Bhakti movement|''Bhakti'' school]] of literature and reasserted the seriousness of the poetic vocation in the place of the excessive sensuality and eroticism of the ''[[Manipravalam]]'' poets.<ref name=":1" /> Divergence from the ''Manipravalam'' school, through non-usage of Dravidian [[Metre (poetry)|metre]] and Sanskrit grammatical forms, are noted.<ref name=":2" /><br />
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Madhava Panikkar's ''Bhasha Bhagavadgita'', a condensed Malayalam translation of ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'' was its first translation into any modern Indian language.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA464|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|last=Datta|first=Amaresh|year=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=9788126018031|language=en|page=464}}</ref> Sankara Panikkar's main work is ''Bharatamala'', a masterly condensation of ''[[Mahabharata]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qH3XAAAAMAAJ|title=Modern evaluation of the Mahābhārata: Prof. R.K. Sharma felicitation volume|last1=Śarmā|first1=Rāma Karaṇa|last2=Narang|first2=Satya Pal|publisher=Nag Publishers|year=1995|pages=267|isbn=9788170812913|language=en}}</ref> Perhaps the most important was Rama Panikkar, who is the author of ''[[Ramayana]]m'', ''[[Mahabharata|Bharatam]]'', ''[[Bhagavata Purana|Bhagavatam]]'', and ''Sivarathri Mahatmyam''. ''Kannassa Ramayanam'' and ''Kannassa Bharatam'' are the most important of these Niranam works. The former is an important link between Cheeraman's ''Ramacharitam'', Ayyappilli Asan's ''Ramakathapattu'' and [[Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan|Ezhuthachan]]'s ''[[Adhyathmaramayanam]]''. [[Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer|Ulloor]] has said that Rama Panikkar holds the same position in Malayalam literature that [[Edmund Spenser]] has in English literature.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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* Singh, Kumar Suresh (2003). People of India. 26. Anthropological Survey of India. p. 717.<br />
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