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slow process and some of these stages can be dated. How far are these traditions found in Kampan 2 The 96 Prabhandas are independant literary genre but some of these do find a place in the epics. See the Tacangam even in the akavals of Manicka vasakar I las Pillaikavi or Parani or Meykkirtti etc. become a well-established literary convention in Kampan ? is kalaviul a mere convention in Kampan – Alwars and Nayanmars found an expression for their mysticism in the idioms of kalaviul poetry 2 It is this deification that we find in Kampan’s hand{ing the story of purvaraga or kalavu of Rama and Sita and not the mere ritualised convention of the Kovai literature. A deeper study on these lines is called for. A historical dictionary giving the meanings of words with respective dates will help us a great deal. The Santi Sadana of my good friend Thiru S. Rajam has prepared an annotated word index for all the Tamil prose and poetical works upto the fourteenth century including inscriptions and when alphabetically arranged this may become the core of such a historical dictionary. There is an anecdote about an unusual usage Tumitan condemned as a neologism used by mistake almost in ignorance. There is also the verse speaking of Kambar as Kanpanattalwar he ruler of Kampanatu. The late lamented Prof. Vaiyapuri Pillai simply pooh-poohed this idea of Kampanatu but one can be never so sure about these things. Is it possible to identifiy this country 2 Can it be one of the countries in the far east 7 Can it be, it is this which prevented Kampan becoming as authoritative as other epic writers to the commentators. Is the neologism to be traced to the usuage of the country. Then we would be left without any known proper name for the author of Ramavataram.. Kamparamayanam may simply mean Ramayana of the Kampa Country. This will solve the riddle of the name Kampada – Ramayana where the first word taking the non-human inflexes - da instead of the human -r-a. Or is Kampanatu the Kanchi country 2 is 1 75