![]() The copyright of the book is with the UV Swaminatha Iyer library in Chennai and the book is sought to be re published as a joint venture between Maran publications and U V Swaminatha Iyer library. Iyer published over 90 books in his lifetime His singular efforts over five decades brought to light major literary works in Tamil and contributed vastly to the enrichment of its literary heritage. Swaminatha Iyer (1855 – 1942) was a Tamil scholar and researcher who was instrumental in bringing many long-forgotten works of classical Tamil literature to light. Now, the book is out of print and copies are not available. It took him a total of 10 years to bring out the 10,000 page 9 volume book collection. Swamintha Iyer passed away in 1942, and his son Kalyana Sundara Iyer started bringing out the publication in 1949. ![]() ![]() The 9 volume commentary written by U V Swaminatha Iyer was published only after his death. It is the work of a lifetime of searching for the various palm leaf manuscripts of the Ramayana. The book is said to provide the most comprehensive and the extremely nuanced commentary of the Kamba Ramayana in Tamil. It is a commentary of the 10,000 stanzas of the Kamba Ramayana Noted Tamil scholar and researcher U V Swaminathan Iyer’s book, “Kamba Ramayanam, A Commentary” written in Tamil sometime in the 1940s is a 9 volume magnum opus with a total of more than 10,400 pages.
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