An 81-year-old man has given a great gift to the mankind. The goodness of ancient scriptures has been translated into English and offered free of cost to the present world. This is phenomenal work of P.R. Ramachander, a native of Trichur.
P.R. Ramachander was born on January 10, 1940, in Chelakkara, Trichur District, Kerala to Sri. P.R. Rama Iyer, who belonged to Kerala’s Iyer sect,
Ramachander passed M.A in Mathematics and got a Post Doctoral Diploma in Agricultural Statistics. He worked as the Head of the Department of Statistics in several ICAR institutes. After serving for 36 years, he retired as the Head of Division of Economics and Statistics of Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore in the year 2000.
Top scientist of the millennium
Ramachander published around 150 research papers and four books on his subject. One of the institutions in England recognized him as one of the top scientists of the Millennium. Ramachander is a multi-linguist. He can read, write and speak English, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi; can read Sanskrit and can speak Telugu and Kannada. He loves astrology and historical studies. He kept himself busy with blogging, writing religious articles. He keeps writing and publishing poetry in English. His wife Jayalakshmi supports him all through. And his son Ramesh lives in Florida. His daughter Meera Priya lives in Bangalore. Ramachander has two granddaughters and a grandson. Currently settled in Bangalore, Ramachander is a member of the Kerala Iyer Trust.
On the day of his retirement, Ramachander took a resolution. He decided himself to translate all the Hindu stotras written in Tamil, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada into English.
P R Ramachander has undertook another marathon translation activity by writing three magnum opus “Ramayanas” of great writers Valmiki and Kamba besides translating Adhyathma Ramayana. These are not easy tasks at all. He has, to his wonderful credit, translated21 Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Devi
Mahatmyam, Narayaneeyam, Jnanapana, Krishna Karnamrutham, 21 Vedic Sukthas, including Chamakam, Rudram and 65 out of 80 known Stotra compositions of Adhi Sankara.
Aiming to preserve Carnatic Kritis in English he has translated 1950Kritis, which include writings of Vaggeyakaras such asThyagaraja, about 100 Kritis each of Purandaradasa , Oothukadu Venkatasubba Iyer and many other. Ramachander is a selfless writer. He has kept all his works to be accessed free of cost on his website. All these translations are now available in PDF format on: http://www.hindupedia.com/en/User:P.R.Ramachander
His Parampara: YajurVedis with Apasthambha Suthra, Koundinya Gothra
Subjects of His Study
- Translation in to English of Stotras
- Astrology
- History of communities
Hobbies & Interests: Telling & Writing stories
Hindupedia Areas of Focus are Stotra and Temples of Kerala
Other Socio Cultural Associations & Activities: Member of Kerala Iyer Trust
Other Interests & Activities
- Blogging, writing religious articles
Here is the list of his fund of Translations
- Stotra Translations on Hindupedia
- AdhyathmaRamayanamKiliPaattu by ThunjathuEzhuthachan
- Ambujam Krishna Krithis
- Bhagavad Gita in free English verse
- Compositions of Andavan Pichai
- Compositions of Mahakavi Bharathi
- Compositions of Oothukadu Venkata Kavi aka Venkata SubbaIyer
- Compositions of SmtD.Pattammal
- Compositions of Smt.Thangam Viswanathan
- Compositions of Thyagaraja
- Composititions of Prof B. Ramamurthy Rao
- Dasavatharams of Lord Vishnu
- DathathreyaStotras and Avadhootha Gita
- Few compositions of HarikesavaNallurMuthaiahBhagawathar
- Kamba Ramayanam I
- Kamba Ramayanam II
- krithi links.docx
- Krithis composed by Smt. Kalyani Varadarajan
- Krithis of ThanjavurSankaraIyer
- Malayalam Krithis of Dr. Prabodha Chandran Nair
- music links.docx
- Neelakanda Sivan compositions
- PapanasamShivanKrithis
- Prayers addressed to Lord Anjaneya in Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu
- Prayers addressed to Lord Krishna in Sanskrit, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi
- Prayers addressed to MahaPeriyava
- Prayers to all planets (grahas)
- Prayers to Lord Sai
- Prayers to Lord Venkatesa
- Prayers to Sacred animals
- PurandharaDasa the Grand father of Carnatic music – some krithis and their meaning
- SadashivaBrahmendra-all compositions
- Selected Stotras to Vishnu
- Some compositions of Sage Narayana Theertha
- Story of King Vikramadhithya
- Stotras addressed to God Shiva in Sanskrit, Tamil , Malayalam and Hindi
- Stotras addressed to Goddess Mahalakshmi
- Stotras addressed to Goddess Saraswathi in Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam
- Stotras addressed to Lord Ganesa in Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam
- Stotras addressed to Lord Sasthamainly in Tamil and Malayalam
- Stotras addressed to Lord ShanmugaMuruga.Most of the prayrs are in Tamil
- Stotras addressed to sacred plants and trees
- Stotras in Sanskrit, tamil, Malayalam and Hindi addressed to various forms of Goddess Parvathi
- Stotras in Sanskrit, Tamil, Malayalam and Krithis addressed to Guruvayurappan
- Stotras of Rama
- Stotras, Krithis and Upanishads of Lord Narasimha
- The prayers to sacred rivers of India
- The Three Gems Offered at the feet of Lord Guruvayurappan
- Translation in to English of some Krithis of Sri.G.N.Balasunramanyam
- Translation of Minor Upanishads
- Translations of few Krithis of MuthuswamiDekshithar
- Translations of Krithis of Ashok Madhava
- VamikiRamayanam I
- Valmiki Ramayanam II
- Vedic sukthas
- StotraRathnas from MahaBhagawatha Purana
- Tamil stotras by Durgaichithar
- Few translation of works of Tamil Sidhas, Saints and Poets
- Particulars of some temples of Kerala
- The village Gods of Tamil Nadu
This simple looking website is fund of Epic knowledge in English created by one single individual in his post retirement period. Unbelievable. The above is extracted from main page of his website. A click on each sentence red in colour will lead the onlooker to another fund of knowledge. He sought this to be publicised so that this wisdom is accessible to maximum possible number of people in the world. The website makers also sought support. His Contact: [email protected]
