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was Sir. C.P.Ramaswamy Aiyar ( the then Dewan of Travancore State) who
recognized the innate worth of Shri Seshdri. Hearing that such a great
linguist and scholar was languishing as a sub-registrar, he
commissioned him to translate into Malayalam such classics as
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne's Essays and Plutarch's
Lives, as also for writing an original commentary on Bhagavad Gita,
with the interpretations of Sankara, Ramanuja, Sri Aurobindo and
Lokamanya Tilak. Sir C.P.then appointed him as the Superintendent of
Travancore university's Department of Publishcations.
In his later years,
Shri Seshadri's talent and scholarship were utilized
by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, for
translating into Malayalam the great works of some Bengali. Hindi and Marathi
writers as well as the History of Peloponnesian war from Greek. Shri Seshadri was a
highly spiritual soul, endowed with the twin qualities of love and
humility. He passed away
in Bombay in August, 1989.
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