Background
Padmanabha Pillai was born in Sreekanteswaram in Thiruvananthapuram(Trivandrum).
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Education
He studied English, Tamil and Sanskrit and wrote Duryodhanavadham and Dharmaguptavadham at a young age.
Career
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.
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.
