After reading and explaining the Bhagavatham for so long, he got blessings from godess Saraswathi and Ganesh that he started compose poems and tuned it himself and sung in front of the Bhagavatham Audience. They also enjoyed as those were in simple language, and started learn and sing the same. This made other Sanskrit Pandits annoy, and they started ignore him. One day, he completed one book (those days they wrote in the Coconut leaves!) and wanted to correct it from one of his favourite sanskrit Pandit and poet Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri.
But being a jealous Bhattathiri did not want to help him and and instead he said he don't have time to see the "regional language poem" , which made Poonthanam hurt. He went with a down face, because his ego got hurt as he said publicly.
That night Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri could not sleep, he reumatic pain came back with double force, and it was intolerable. He came to Guruvayur for a bhajan to cure this by doing bhajan. It was being under control after a few days of Bhajan and in gesture of gratitude, he was working on Bhagavatham's short form called " Narayaneeyam".
Then happened this episode of Poonthanam's request for correction and rest of the story....
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