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'''P. S. Sundaram''' (1910–1998), born '''Pazmarneri Subrahmanya Sundaram''', was an Indian professor of English, best known for translating the [[Tirukkural]] and various Tamil classics into [[English language|English]]. He had degrees in English from the [[University of Madras]] and the [[Oxford University]]. He served as professor of English for about 40 years in different parts of [[North India]].<ref name="CompendiumOfTrans">{{cite book|author=A. A. Manavalan (Ed.)|title=A Compendium of ''Tirukkural'' Translations in English|year=2010|publisher=Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil|isbn=978-81-908000-2-0|page=xxxii}}</ref>

==Biography==
P. S. Sundaram was born into a Tamil-speaking family. In 1930, he obtained a first-class master's degree in English literature from the [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College]], [[Chennai]]. He went to the [[Oxford University]] for higher studies and returned to India in 1934, after which he joined the DAV College in Lahore, beginning his decades-long career as a distinguished academician. In 1938, he joined the [[Ravenshaw College]] in [[Cuttack]] as head of the English department. He went on to become the principal, and in 1953 he became a member of the Orissa Public Service Commission. With his government service ending in 1959, he was forced to seek non-government employment in his mid-forties. He then joined as principal of the [[Bareilly College]] and later continued in the same capacity at the Maharani's College in [[Jaipur]] until his retirement in 1974.<ref name="Penguin_KambaRamayana">{{cite book|author=N. S. Jagannathan (Ed.)|title=Kamba Ramayana|year=2002|location=Gurgaon|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-01-430281-5-4|page=vii–x}}</ref>

Retirement gave him the freedom to pursue his passion for classical Tamil literature. Backed by his command in both Tamil and English, he took up the task of translating various Tamil classics.<ref name="Penguin_KambaRamayana"/> He wrote a biography on the Indian author in English [[R. K. Narayan]] and translated the Tamil poet [[Subramania Bharati]] into English.<ref name="CompendiumOfTrans"/><ref name="Penguin_KambaRamayana"/> In 1987, he privately published an English translation of the Tirukkural. The translation was made in verse and was published under the title ''Tiruvalluvar The Kural''. He then translated the mystical poems of Andal and other Alwars in the Vaishnavite Bhakti tradition. In the final years of his life, he translated the 12,000-odd verses of the [[Kamba Ramayanam]] into English.<ref name="Penguin_KambaRamayana"/>

==Literary works==
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* Tiruvalluvar, The Kural (1987)
* Kamba Ramayana (2002)
* Andal's Thiruppavai and Nachiar Thirumozhi

==See also==
{{Portal|India|Tamils|Literature|Poetry}}
* [[Tirukkural translations]]
* [[Tirukkural translations into English]]
* [[List of translators into English]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Manavalan, A. A. (2010). ''A Compendium of'' Tirukkural ''Translations in English'' (4 vols.). Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil, {{ISBN|978-81-908000-2-0}}.

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