The Tamil poet Kampbar, another devotional writer of the Bhakti Hindu revival, composes the colorful epic “Ramavataram” in the early thirteenth century.

Based on Valmiki's Ramayana in Sanskrit, the story describes the life of King Rama of Ayodhya.

However, Ramavatharam is different from the Sanksrit original in many aspects—both in spiritual concepts and in the specifics of the story line.

This historic work is considered by Tamil scholars as well as the general public as one of the greatest literary works in Tamil literature.