Mahabaratha - Full Tamil Translation

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The entire Mahabaratha was fully translated into Tamil by a group of

Tamil and Sanskrit Pandits in the 1930s. The coordination of the

translation effort was lead Sri M V Ramanujachariar who was the Tamil

Pandit in Kumbakonam college. The publication itself was done by Sri

SivaramaKrishnaiyar of Mahahabharatham press, Kumbakonam. The

translation ran to 9 volumes, each volume being close to 1000 pages.

 

The translation per se was done by several authors, Sri T E

Srinivasachariyar (of Trichy St Joseph's college), Sri Karungulam

Krishna sastrigal and Sri Paingaadu Ganapathy Sastrigal.

 

This work, which was published in 1930s was not available for a

period of close to 70 years, till now.

 

Venkatramanan S, who is the grandson of Sri SivaramaKrishnaiyar (the

original publisher), inspite of all the financial constraints, has

come out with the first 4 volumes of the set of 9 volumes. He is in

the process of publishing the fifth volume.

 

He has published a limited number of copies (250) of each volume,

because of paucity of buyers and funds. Approximaltely 50 copies of

the first 4 volumes is still available with him.

 

The first 4 volumes together cost close to Rs 1400/- (with out the

postage charges).

 

Venkatramanan's contact is as follows:

Phone: 91-44-27466110;

Address:

Plot No 78, Door No 14, Valmiki street,

Selvaraj Nagar Extension 2,

Oorappakkam 603202

District of Kanchipuram

TamilNadu

 

Please call him if you need the book and he will be happy to respond

to you promptly.

 

Also, Mr Venkatraman calls a buyer of any volume, promptly, for any

information on publication of forthcoming volumes. That would ensure

that those who are interested in having this set in its entirety are

assured of a continuity of information on the status of future

publications.

 

 

 

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