Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma: Many

Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma was Maharajah of Travencore. Explore interesting quotes on many.

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“There are many other evidences of Swathi’s efforts to promote education and modern science…. Many of his reforms were progressive and many put an end to superstitions. One instance would be enough to mention in this regard – abolishing the practice of Sucheendram Kaimukku where accused persons were to dip their fingers in boiling oil to prove their innocence.”

Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma

Dr Achuthsankar S Nair, in "An enlightened and princely patron of true science".
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“Over the years, some of the Maharaja’s compositions have become very popular but there are so many more. My aim has been to present some of these rarely heard compositions every year.”

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Aswathy Thirunal Rama Varma, in "Royal musical treat"
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“Swati Tirumal also imbibed the best from the many Hindustani musicians who flocked to his court and composed many songs in Hindustani ragas.”

Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma

V. K. Subramanian (2013), in "101 Mystics of India", p, 181
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“Swati Tirunal, now thirteen… took up a book of mathematics and selecting the forty seventh proposition of Euclid sketched the figure on a country slate but what astonished me most was his telling us in English that Geometry was derived from the Sanskrit, which as Jaw metor (Jyamiti) to measure the earth and that many of our mathematical terms were also derived from the same source such as hexagon, heptagon, octagon… This promising boy is now, I conclude, sovereign of the finest country in India for he was to succeed to the Musnud (throne) the moment he had attained his 16th year.”

Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma

Colonel Welsh, in "The Monarch musician"
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