English Translations of Kampaṉ's Rāmāyaṇa
Hart, George and Hank Heifetz. The Forest Book of the Rāmāyaṇa of Kampaṉ. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Sundaram, PS. Kamba Rāmāyanam. 7 vols. Tanjavur: Tamil University Press and Department of Tamil Development-Culture, Government of Tamil Nadu. 1980-1994.
Retellings of Kampaṉ’s Rāmāyaṇa
Kampan̲, and C Rajagopalachari. The Ramayana As Told by Kamban. Unesco Collection of
Representative Works. London: Allen & Unwin, 195?.
Rajagopalachari, C, and Kampan. Cakkaravarttit Tirumakan̲ [4. Patippu] ed. Cen̲n̲ai: Pāri
Nilaiyam, 1960. [In Tamil]
Narayan, R.K. Ramayana. London: Chatto and Windus, 1972.
Selected Secondary Sources in Tamil on Kampaṉ’s Rāmāyaṇa
Aruṇācalam, Mu. Tamil̲ Ilakkiya Varalār̲u. Tirucciṟṟampalam: Kānti Vittiyālayam, 1969.
Gnanasambandam, A.S. 1998. Kampa Ramayanam: Mulappatalkalum Uraikalum. Coimbatore: Kovai
Kampan Trust.
Irāmarājan̲ S. K. Āl̲vārkaḷum Kampan̲um. Cen̲n̲ai: Kampan̲ Kal̲akam, 1992.
Ismāyil Mu. Mu. Kampan̲ Kaṇṭa Camaracam. Cen̲n̲ai: Vān̲ati Patippakam, 1985.
Ñān̲acampantan̲, A. Ca. Kampan̲, Putiya Pārvai: Kamban, a New Approach. Amarar Ēvi. Em.
Ar̲akkaṭṭaḷai Nin̲aivuc Cor̲pol̲ivukaḷ. Cen̲n̲ai: Kampan̲ Kal̲aka Veḷiyīṭu, 1984.
Perumāḷmurukaṉ. Vāṉkuruviyiṉ Kūṭu: Taṉippāṭal Aṉupavaṅkaḷ. Cen̲n̲ai: Naṟṟiṇaip Patippakam, 2012.
Piḷḷai, Vaiyapuri S. Kampan̲ Kāviyam. Cen̲n̲ai: Tamil̲p̲ puttakālayam, 1965.
Vēṅkaṭakiruṣṇayyaṅkār Ti. Kampa Rāmāyaṇam: Urai Naṭai Mutar̲ patippu ed. Cen̲n̲ai: Vanati
Patippakam, 1987.
Selected Secondary Sources in English on Kampaṉ’s Rāmāyaṇa
Aiyer, V.V.S. Kamba Ramayanam, a Study: With Translation in Verse or Poetic Prose of Over Four
Thousand of the Original Poems. New Delhi: Delhi Tamil Sangam, 1950.
Bharathi Tamil Sangham. Essays on Kamban. Calcutta: Bharathi Tamil Sangham, 1973.
Blackburn, Stuart. Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
Dakshayani, Krishnasamy V. The Metres in Kambaramayanam. Annamalainagar: Annamalai University,
1979.
Dallapiccola, Anna L. "Ramayana Murals in the Vasanta Maṇḍapa at Kallalagar Temple, Alagar Koyil."
In Art, Icon, and Architecture in South Asia: Essays in Honour of Dr. Devangana Desai, edited by Anila Verghese and Anna L. Dallapiccola, 455-71. New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2015.
Emeneau, M.B. “Kannaḍa Kampa, Tamil Kampaṉ: Two Proper Names.” in “Indological Studies
Dedicated to Daniel H. H. Ingalls,” special issue, Journal of the American Oriental Society 105,
no. 3 (Jul. - Sep. 1985): 401-404.
Ganagatharan, A. "Epic, Episteme and Ethnicity: Re-Reading of the Ramayana in Modern Tamil
Context." Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 63 (2002): 877-88.
Manavalan, A. A. Epic Heroism in Milton and Kamban. Coimbatore: Kamban Trust, 1984.
Nagaswamy, R. "Śrī Rāmāyaṇa in Tamilnādu in Art, Thought and Literature." In. The Ramayana
Tradition in Asia: Papers Presented at the International Seminar on the Ramayana Tradition in Asia, New Delhi, December 1975, edited by V. Raghavan, 409-29. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1975.
Narayanan, Vasudha. “The Ramayana and its Muslim Interpreters.” In Questioning Ramayanas: A South-
Asian Tradition, edited by Paula Richman, 265-281. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Narayanan, Vasudha. “Who is the Strong-Armed Monkey who Churns the Ocean of Milk?” Udaya:
Journal of Khmer Studies, no.11 (2014): 3-28.
Patmanāpan̲ Tampi Pa. Ramayanas of Kampan and Eluttacchan. Thuckalay, South India: O
Padmakumari, 1996.
Radhakrishnan, K, Kampan̲, and Kālidāsa. Ayodhya to Lanka: A Comparative Study of Ramayana
of Valmiki, Kalidasa and Kamban. 1. ed. Madras: Higginbothams, 1985.
Ramanujan, A.K. “Three Hundred Rāmāyaṇas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation.” In
Many Rāmāyaṇas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia, edited by Paula
Richman, 22-49. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
Shulman, David. "Divine Order and Divine Evil in the Tamil Tale of Rama." The Journal of Asian
Studies 38, no. 4 (1979): 651-69.
Shulman, David. Tamil: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2016.
Shulman, David. “Fire and Flood: The Testing of Sītā in Kampaṉ’s Irāmāvatāram.” In Many
Rāmāyaṇas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia, edited by Paula Richman, 89-
113. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
Shulman, David. “The Cliché as Ritual and Instrument: Iconic Puns in Kampaṉ’s "Irāmāvatāram".”
Numen 25, Fasc. 2 (Aug. 1978): 135-155.
Subramanian, Rama. "Purananuru and Kamban." Indian Literature 18, no. 3 (1975): 104-19.
Vijayavenugopal, G. "Rāmāyaṇa Paintings of Alakar Koyil." In Vaiṣṇavism in Indian Arts and Culture :
Collected Papers of the University Grants Commission National Seminar on "Impact of Vaiṣṇavism on the Indian Arts", edited by Ratan Parimoo, 412-19. New Delhi: Books & Books, 1986.
Zvelebil, Kamil. The Smile of Murugan. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1973.