Education in Tamil Literature
Maraimalai Adigal in spite of discontinuing his formal education after 9th grade, continued learning Tamil language from Tamil scholar Narayana Pillai, who was making his livelihood by selling Tamil palm leaf manuscripts. He learnt Sanskrit and English through his own effort. He later authored several articles in Tamil monthly called Neelalochani. He later studied Saiva Philosophy under Somasundara Naicker. With the help of Sundaram Pillai, author of Manonmaniam, he learnt Tamil poetic dramas and thus acquired employment as a Tamil teacher in a school in Trivandrum.
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