1. Swami Vipulananda, known as Vipulananda Adigal, was a Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu social reformer, literary critic, author, poet, teacher and ascetic from the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.
21 Facts About Swami Vipulananda
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Swami Vipulananda was born in the village of Karativu, in the south of Batticaloa in Sri Lanka in 1892.
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Swami Vipulananda had his early education in St Michael's College National School in Batticaloa city.
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Swami Vipulananda eventually became the head of operations of the Ramakrishna Mission in Sri Lanka as well as a professor of Tamil language in two universities.
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Swami Vipulananda served as editor of several publications including Ramakrishna Vijayam, Vivekananda and Prabuddha Bharata.
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Swami Vipulananda edited and helped publish literary works of several well-known scholars.
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Swami Vipulananda translated from Tamil to English selected poems from the Sangam literature period, devotional songs from the Bhakti movement period, and poems of Subramanya Bharathi and Navaneetha Krishna Bharathi.
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Swami Vipulananda authored six major Tamil publications: a collection of four Prabanthangal, Mathangaculamani, The Great Dance of Thillai, Umamageswaram, Dictionary of Technical Terms on Chemistry and Yal Nool.
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Swami Vipulananda wrote many poems, and a collection of 32 of his poems was published in 1995.
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Swami Vipulananda was a good public speaker and most of his speeches, focusing mainly on history of the Tamils, Tamil literature, Tamil music and musical instruments, and Vedanta philosophy, were published in international journals and magazines.
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Swami Vipulananda entered the Mylapore Ramakrishna Math in 1922 for his monastic training.
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In 1925 Swami Vipulananda became an administrator of Ramakrishna Mission schools in Sri Lanka.
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Swami Vipulananda was instrumental in founding new RKM schools in Jaffna, Batticalao, Trincomalee and in many villages.
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Swami Vipulananda helped his lifelong friend AM A Azeez, a pioneering Sri Lankan Muslim educator and civil servant, to establish charitable organizations to help poor Muslims in the east of the country.
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Professor Swami Vipulananda received a second invitation to become the first Professor of Tamil soon after the University of Ceylon was established in 1943, which he held until his death in 1947.
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Swami Vipulananda was a strong advocate of the mother tongue as the medium of education, but stressed the importance of learning other languages.
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At Sivananda Vidyalayam, in addition to Tamil, Swami Vipulananda facilitated the teaching of English, Sinhala and Latin.
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Swami Vipulananda recognized and promoted the importance of learning sciences such as biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics, as well as job-related technical subjects.
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Swami Vipulananda facilitated the efforts of other Tamil scholars to translate science and technology publications into Tamil by providing suitable technical terms.
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Swami Vipulananda died after a brief illness on July 19,1947.
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Swami Vipulananda is buried close to the Sivananda Vidyalayam in Kalladi, near Batticaloa city.