Kodupunna Govinda Ganakan

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Kodupunna Govinda Ganakan{{cite web|url=http://keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/PROFILES/KodupunnaGovindaganakan/Html/Kodupunnaphoto.htm |title=Portrait of Kodupunna Govinda Ganakan |publisher=Keralasahityaakademi.org |date= |accessdate=2017-03-22}} (1921–1988) was an Indian multilingual scholar and essayist, born in Koduppunna village of Kuttanadu in the state of Kerala. A Malayalam prose translation of Kālidāsa's Sanskrit lyric poem Meghadūta is one of his famous works.{{cite web|url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/PROFILES/KodupunnaGovindaganakan/Html/Kodupunnagraphy.htm |title=Kodupunna Govinda Ganakan - Biography |publisher=Keralasahityaakademi.org |date= |accessdate=2020-08-31}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nationallibrary.gov.in/showdetails.php?id=447841 |title=National library |publisher=National library |date= |accessdate=2017-03-22}}