Attoor Krishna Pisharody, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Attoor Krishna Pisharody

Sanskrit scholar, teacher and writer

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1875

Place of Birth: Wadakkancherry, Kerala, India

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1964

Profession: teacher, author, musicologist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Attoor Krishna Pisharody

  • Attoor Krishna Pisharody, ???????? ???????????? was born on 29 September 1875 to Vadakkedathu Narayanan Nambudiri and Pappikutti Pisharasyar in Attoor, a small village in Thrissur district, Kerala.
  • He received primary education from his father.
  • A maternal uncle, Bharata Pisharody initiated him into classical Sanskrit.
  • Further education in vyakara?a, advanced kavyas, etc.
  • was provided by Meledathu Ramunni Nambiar.
  • A paternal uncle Vengeri Vasudevan Nambudiri, invited him to live in his house and taught him nyaya, vyakara?a, and ala?kara.
  • For some two years he assisted an aged uncle in managing a vedic school at Ceruvannur Sabhamatham.
  • At the age of eighteen, Attoor unhappy with managerial responsibilities, left for Kodungallur Kovilakam with the twenty-five rupees that he had saved. Attoor who had already mastered ala?kara, specialized primarily in nyaya under Mahamahopadhyaya Bhattashri Godavarma Tampuran.
  • The education and the experiences at Kodungallur Kovilakam were instrumental in shaping Attoor's intellect and outlook, as he recalled later in life.
  • At 22, Attoor returned home as a complete scholar and started instructing in Sanskrit. His first student was Mooppil Nair, the landlord of the house where he stayed.
  • To the Nair, he imparted Sanskrit lessons receiving lessons on the veena in return. At 25, he married Nannikutti Pisharasyar of Vadakootu Pisharam in Pazhayannur.
  • This alliance was very propitious.
  • Nannikutti was musically trained and a vainika, while the father-in-law, Bharata Pisharody was an expert vainika.
  • It provided the perfect foil for Attoor to continue learning from them music and veena while pursuing his exploration into the science of music.
  • The couple shared this wonderful relationship imbibibed in music for the next fifty-six years of their married life until the demise of Nannikutti. His ascent as an academic began with his appointment as a teacher in Alathur High School.
  • After that he worked for five years at the Bhaaratavilasam Press in Thrissur.
  • In 1911, at the invitation of Kerala Panini A.
  • R.
  • Rajarajavarma, he was inducted as a Professor at The Maharajas College, Thiruvananthapuram as a Professor.
  • Following the tenure of Rajarajavarma, Attoor presided over the Oriental language department for a period of sixteen years when he retired from public teaching career.
  • This was followed by a prestigious appointment as Tutor to His Highness, The Maharaja of Travancore in 1927 that lasted five years. After this, Attoor officially retired and returned to Thrissur where he spent a very active post-retired life in his newly built home appropriately named `Sree Thilakam'.
  • Together with his wife, they ran a gurukulam where music flowed. After his wife's death, Attoor retired completely into himself, away from public life, away from teaching, the passion of his life.

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