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Mahakavi Kumaran Asan 12 April — 16 January was a poet of Malayalam literature , Indian social reformer and a philosopher. He is known to have initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry during the first quarter of the 20th century, transforming it from the metaphysical to the lyrical and his poetry is characterised by its moral and spiritual content, poetic concentration and dramatic contextualisation.

He is one of the triumvirate poets of Kerala and a disciple of Sree Narayana Guru. He was awarded the prefix "Mahakavi" in by the Madras university which means "great poet". Asan [ note 2 ] was born on 12 April , in a merchant family belonging to Ezhava community in Kayikkara village, Chirayinkeezhu taluk , Anchuthengu Grama Panchaayath in Travancore [ note 3 ] to Narayanan Perungudi, a polyglot well versed in Malayalam and Tamil languages , and Kochupennu as the second of their nine children.

Subsequently, he joined the school as a teacher in but had to quit as he was not old enough to hold a government job. It was during this time, he studied the verses and plays of Sanskrit literature.

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Later, he started working as an accountant at a local wholesale grocer in , the same year he met Shree Narayana Guru and became the spiritual leader's disciple. Narayana Guru's influence led Asan to spiritual pursuits and he spent some time at a local temple, in prayers and teaching Sanskrit. In , he moved to Bangalore and studied for law, staying with Padmanabhan Palpu.

He stayed there only until as Palpu went to England and a plague epidemic spread over Bangalore and Asan spent the next few months in Madras before proceeding to Calcutta to continue his Sanskrit studies.