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'''Tolan''' (''fl.'' 9th century AD), also romanized as '''Tholan''', was an early medieval south Indian poet remembered for composing [[Malayalam]] passages of the art-form [[Koodiyattam]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=Narayanan|first=M. G. S|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0376983614521543|title=Perumals of Kerala|publisher=CosmoBooks|year=2013|isbn=|location=Thrissur (Kerala)|pages=381-82|orig-year=1972}}</ref> He was a courtier and friend of king Kulasekhara Varma (identified with [[Sthanu Ravi Kulasekhara]], c. 844/45 – c. 870/71 AD).<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Devadevan|first=Manu V.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/in/academic/subjects/history/south-asian-history/early-medieval-origins-india?format=PB&isbn=9781108748513|title=The 'Early Medieval' Origins of India|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2020|isbn=|location=|pages=227|chapter=The Semantic Universe of the Kudiyattam Theatre}}</ref> Tolan wrote the elaborate Malayalam passages for the vidushaka's speeches in [[Koodiyattam]].<ref name=":4" /> These passages were probably intended for a native (Malayalam) audience at the temple.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Narayanan|first=M. G. S|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0376983614521543|title=Perumals of Kerala: Brahmin Oligarchy and Ritual Monarchy|publisher=CosmoBooks|year=2013|isbn=|location=Thrissur (Kerala)|pages=364|orig-year=1972}}</ref><br />
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Tolan is also credited with the authorship of the lost historical kavya "Mahodayapuresa-charitha".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Vielle|first=Christophe|date=2012|title=Real and Ideal Kings in Matrilineal Kerala|url=https://journal.equinoxpub.com/ROSA/article/view/11188|journal=Religions of South Asia|volume=5|issue=1|pages=369|doi=10.1558/rosa.v5i1/2.365}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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*[[Koothu]]<br />
*[[Koodiyattam]]<br />
*[[Malayalam literature]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian male poets]]<br />
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[[Category:9th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Kerala]]<br />
[[Category:Koodiyattam exponents]]<br />
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