Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai
- Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai
Sreekanteswaram G. Padmanabha Pillai (1864 - 1946), popularly known as "Sreekanteswaram", was a lexicographer and scholar best known for his Malayalam dictionary Sabdatharavali.
Padmanabha Pillai was born in Sreekanteswaram in Thiruvananthapuram district. He studied English, Tamil and Sanskrit and wrote "Duryodhanavadham" and "Dharmaguptavadham" at a young age. He later worked as a lawyer.
He started his work on "Sabdatharavali" at the age of 32. The first part of the book came out in 1918. The dictionary, which runs into more than 1600 pages, took twenty years to complete. His son P. Damodara Pillai later compiled a concise version. Padmanabha Pillai also prepared a pocket dictionary in 1906.
Padmanabha Pillai wrote around sixty books in his lifetime. He ran the magazine "Bhashavilasam" for a time and left two dictionaries - "Sahityabharanam" and an English-Malayalam dictionary - incomplete at the time of his death.
References
* "Akhilavijnanakosam" encyclopaedia (Malayalam), DC Books, Vol. 4, p.24 (1990)http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/03/15/stories/2004031502010300.htm
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