Otttakuttar (oṭ ṭtakūttar (oṭ ṭakūttan))
(Language: Tamil)
Alternate Spellings: Ottakuttan
Short Description: “Emperor of poets” known as being a great devotee of the goddess, Sarasvati.
Long Description: Like Kambar he too had the title of “kavicakravarti” or “emperor of poets”. He was patronized by three successive Chola monarchs, Vikrama, Kulottunga II and Rajaraja I1. Ottakuttar has composed two paranis, the Kalingattu parani and the Dakkayaga-parani. (A parani is a war-poem, by definition one that celebrates the victory of a hero who destroys a thousand elephants of the enemy’s forces and an equal number of horses and chariots.) Ottakuttar was a great devotee of Sarasvati and one of the rare temples to this goddess is said to have been built by him at Kuttanur.
