Ramayana Masam Festival, Kerala is celebrated on the first day of the Malayalam month Karkkidakom. The festival is called Ramayana Masam Festival, Kerala because every other home in Kerela reads the epic of Ramayana and finishes reading it within the time period of thirty one days. The practice of reading the epic is regarded to be auspicious along with the notion that it will strengthen and secure the agrarian society of Kerela. It is so because since it is the month of the rainy season so the month is marked by less agricultural production. Thus the month is characterized by poverty, diseases and unhappiness. Ramayana Masam Festival, Kerala is the time of spiritual consolation. Ramayana Masam Festival, Kerala is celebrated on the month of July n Kerela.
The custom of reading Ramayana started from the 16th century when the eminent poet Thunchathu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan, who is considered as the father of Malayalam language wrote Ramayanam Kilippattu. Ramayanam Kilippattu was well accepted by the lay man of Kerela since the Malayalam version of the epic was straightforward as well as easy to comprehend.
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