But his stay was again cut short due to plague epidemic. His teacher was Mahamahopadhyaya Kamakhya Nath who encouraged the poetic gift of his student and prophesied that he would one day become a famous poet. Leaving Bangalore he came to Madras and after a brief stay, left for Calcutta to join the Sanskrit College(Central Hindu College). Swamy took the fledgling devotee under his care and in 1895 Kumaran was sent to Bangalore for 3 years for higher studies in Sanskrit, at the Sree Chamarajendra Sanskrit College. Thus began a new phase of life for the young lad. The little boy found the invitation irresistible. The great saint suggested that Kumaran should stay with him and become his disciple. When he was eighteen, Sree Narayana Guru visited his house at the request of his father. Kumaran was dogged by ill-health all through his early life. Bhanumathiamma, who was an active social worker, later remarried after Asan’s death and died in 1975. In 1917 Asan married Bhanumathiamma, the daughter of Thachakudy Kumaran – younger brother of Padmanabhan Palpu’s father. In 1890, he met Sree Narayana Guru and became the spiritual leader’s disciple. He composed a few devotional songs for the benefit of regular worshipers at this temple. He wished to learn Yoga and Tantra and worked as an apprentice in a Muruga temple at Vakkom. He undertook a studentship in poetry under Manamboor Govindan Asan. Even though through his father’s efforts, he got a job as a primary school teacher and an accountant to a wholesaler at the age of 14, he quit the job two years later to pursue higher studies in Sanskrit. Kumaru trained in mathematics and Sanskrit for which he had a passion. Asan inherited his taste for Kathakali and classical music. His father, Narayanan Perungudi, was well versed in Malayalam and Tamil. Named Kumaran, he was the second son in a family of nine children. Kumaran Asan was born in a merchant family belonging to the Ezhava community in April 1873 in Kayikkara village, Chirayinkeezhu taluk, north of Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, south India. Parameswara Iyer in the first half of the 20th century and a disciple of Sree Narayana Guru. Kumaran Asan was one of the famous triumvirate poets of Kerala along with Vallathol Narayana Menon and Ulloor S. Kumaran Asan initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry in the first quarter of the 20th century, transforming it from the metaphysical to the lyrical and his poetry is characterized by its moral and spiritual content, poetic concentration and dramatic contextualization. Kumaran Asan (1873-1924) also known as Mahakavi Kumaran Asan, the name prefix Mahakavi (Awarded by Madras University in the Year 1922) meaning great poet and the suffix Asan meaning scholar or teacher) was a Malayalam poet, philosopher and social reformer. Malayalam Content of the same is published here
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