Expression of gratitude to Dr. K.G. Paulose for mentioning in his 2013 Vyangyavyakhya book, my family ancestor Thuravoor (Turavur) Narayana Sastrigal as eminent traditional (Sanskrit) scholar and transcriber of Vyangyavyakhya in 1915

Copied with link update from ravisiyer.blogspot.com on 14 Apr. 2023, first published there on May 28, 2020

Thuravoor (Turavur) Narayana Sastrigal (TNS) was a noted Sanskrit scholar and grammarian of late 19th century and early 20th century, who was principal of Maharaja's Govt. Sanskrit College, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) from 1909-1911. He was also my great-grandfather. For more on him, please see my post: https://tnarayanasasthri.blogspot.com/2023/04/my-great-grandfather-thuravoor-narayana.html .

The above mentioned post shares some references to TNS in books and articles written in the 20th century.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._G._Paulose, "K. G. Paulose is a Sanskrit scholar specialized in the dramaturgy of the Natya Shastra and Kooditaatam."

In Dr. K.G. Paulose's book, Vyaṅgyavyākhyā: The Aesthetics of Dhvani in Theatre published in 2013, (the same) Turavur (Thuravoor) Narayana Sastri (TNS) has been mentioned as 1915 Sanskrit transcriber from Malayalam palm leaf manuscripts of originally 9th/10th century possibly, commentaries (dhvanis) - Tapatīsaṃvaraṇa-dhvani and Subhadrādhanañjaya-dhvani - on two dramas - Tapatīsaṃvaraṇa and Subhadrādhanañjaya - of same time period, all of which were created in ancient Kerala. Note that the plot of both the two dramas (not commentaries/dhvanis) are said to be taken from associated stories in the Mahabharata epic. There seems to be just one mention of TNS name in Dr. Paulose's above book.

On page 67 of the above Vyangyvyakhya book of Dr. Paulose, (as per Google Books) we have the following paragraph:
The only Ms available to us of these text is the one owned by Kailasapurathu Govinda Pisharoti in the palace library (No. 67) in Thiruvananthapuram. This palm-leaf Ms, in early Malayalam script is very old and is worn-out in many places. Turavur Narayana Sastri, an eminent traditional scholar of the last century transcribed this in paper in Devanāgari script for the Oriental Manuscript Library Thiruvanantapuram in 1915 CE (ME 1090).
--- end paragraph from Paulose book ---

This reference to TNS has been, in turn, referenced by other books and articles published in 2017, 2019 and 2020. [For more on it, please see my post: https://tnarayanasasthri.blogspot.com/2023/04/my-ancestor-turavur-narayana-sastri.html .]

So it is Dr. Paulose's above mentioned book that has brought the name of TNS, as an eminent traditional scholar and Devanagari script (Sanskrit) transcriber of Vyangyavyakhya, to a few books and articles in this early 21st century, and which mention can also be discovered through Google search and Google Books search! That is a matter of joy for us descendants of TNS.

On behalf of descendants of Thuravoor (Turavur) Narayana Sastrigal, of which I am one such descendant, I express our heart-felt gratitude to Dr. K.G. Paulose for this service he has done to our family.

I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking to Dr. K.G. Paulose on phone on two occasions recently, with the last conversation being today (28th May 2020) afternoon. Over phone, I have expressed my, and our TNS descendants family's, heart-felt gratitude to him. Dr. Paulose received those words very graciously. I felt it appropriate to also record this gratitude via this written post.