Vaiyapuri Pillai

Vaiyapuri Pillai

Prof. Vaiyapuri Pillai (1891-1956) was a renowned scholar of Tamil. An advocate by profession, he edited and published several Tamil classics from original manuscripts. He is best remembered as the editor of the Tamil lexicon published by the Madras University in the 1920s. He was a voracious reader and had in his own private collection thousands of books in Tamil, English, Sanskrit and Malayalam. His collection also included hundreds of palm leaf manuscripts. This collection was later donated to the National Library at Calcutta.

External links

* [http://www.newstodaynet.com/2005sud/05jul/ss5.htm An incomparable Tamil Lexicographer]

References

* cite web
url = http://www.nlindia.org/gift_pillai.html
title = Vaiyapuri Pillai Collection
accessdate = 2007-04-18


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