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Kampar, active 9th century

LC control no.n 79129797
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPL4758.9.K27
Personal name headingKampar, active 9th century
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Variant(s)Kamba, active 9th century
Kamban, active 9th century
Kampan, active 9th century
Kampanāṭṭāl̲vār, active 9th century
Kampar, 9th cent.
Beginning date08
Found inHis Ayodhya canto of the Ramayana, 1961: t.p. (Kamban) p. 7 (he lived in the 9th cent. after Christ)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Kampar, 9th cent.; BM Cat. of Tamil books: Kamban; Tamil ency. [vernacular script form], transliterated form: Kampar)
Encyc. Brit., c1984 (Kampan; 12th cent.)
Cassell's encyc. of world lit., 1973 (Kampan; probably lived in the 12th cent.)
His The forest book of the Rāmāyaṇa of Kampan̲, 1989: t.p. (Kampan̲) p. 1 (he lived in the 12th cent.) p. 2 (there is an old verse giving a date that has two different interpretations, yielding a date of either 855 or 1185 A.D.; there is abundant other evidence that the latter of these two dates is correct)
Kamba Ramayanam, 1992: t.p. (Kamba)
Kampanāṭṭāḷvār iyar̲r̲iyaruḷiya Caracuvatiantāti, 1914: t.p. (Kampanāṭṭāl̲vār)
Not found inRequest for guidance from LC's South Asia Team, RCCD, 1/11/93, 4/14/93; from LC's Asian Div., 6/10/93, 7/13/93