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Dr. P.K Narayana Pillai was a scholar and poet of Sanskrit and Malayalam literature. He is noted for his two Sanskrit mahakavyas (epics), Vishvabhānu and Dharmasāgara, on the lives of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna, respectively.[1] Vishvabhānu was the recipient of the 1982 Sanskrit Sahitya Akademi award. He also translated the Mayūrasandesam of Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thamburam. He also authored many other scholarly monographs on notable authors like Malayalam devotional poet, Ezhuttachan and the classical Sanskrit poet, Kālidāsa.
He was born in Tiruvalla, Kerala on 25th December 1910 to Sri T. Goda Varma of Paliyakkara Palace and Smt. Lakshmi Amma. In 1940, he was married to Smt. J. Kamalamma, daughter of the Dewan Peshkar, Sri N.S. Raman Pillai and Smt. Janaki Amma. He had three daughters, Jayashree, Manjushree, and Rajashree.[2]
He received his M.A. in Sanskrit in 1935 and his M.A. in Malayalam in 1936 from University of Madras. He received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit in 1944 from the University of Mumbai. Distinguished Sanskrit scholars, V.M. Apte and V.S. Sukthankar, were his guides.[3]
He was Curator of the Oriental Research Institute and Manuscripts Library[4] (then the Manuscripts Library of Thiruvananthapuram), one of the largest manuscripts and leading centers of Indology in India, which holds vast collections of extant palm-leaf manuscripts of ancient Sanskrit and Malayalam literature.[5] He was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Sanskrit[6] in the University College, Thiruvananthapuram in 1952. In 1956 he established the Mahakavi Ulloor Memorial Library in honor of the famed Malayalam poet, Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer in Jagathy, Thiruvananthapuram. In 1957, he was appointed Principal of the Government Sanskrit College. In 1963, he was appointed Professor and Head of the newly created Malayalam Department of the University of Kerala, establishing its foundations. He was also Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. In the culminating decades of his life, he sought to establish a Sanskrit University in Kerala, serving as the One-Man Commission for Sanskrit University from 1971-72 and Special Officer for the Sanskrit University at Kalady, Kerala from 1985-87 under the Government of Kerala. He did not live to see it but the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in Kalady (the birthplace of The Hindu sage and exponent of the Advaita tradition in Vedanta, Adi Shankaracharya) was established in 1993.
Dr. Pillai passed away on March 20, 1990 preceded by his wife's death in September 1989.
References
- ^ Swami Tapsyananda, "Introduction." Dharmasāgarah: The Spiritual Sea: A Poem on Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa in Sanskrit with English Translation. P.K. Narayana Pilla. Trivandrum: St. Joseph's Press, 1990.
- ^ Pillai, P.K. Narayana (2022). Vishvabhānu [The Universal Light] (2nd ed.). Thiruvananthapuram: Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama. pp. 20–21.
- ^ Pillai, P.K. Narayana (2022). Vishvabhānu [The Universal Light] (2nd ed.). Thiruvananthapuram: Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama. p. 20.
- ^ "ORIMSS – Oriental Research Institute and Manuscripts Library". 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ Iyer, Venkitasubramonia (1976). Kerala Sanskrit Literature: A Bibliography. India: Department of Sanskrit, University of Kerala.
- ^ "Department of Sanskrit – University College, Thiruvananthapuram". Retrieved 2024-03-17.