"All that I write whether poetry or music centred around God. This is an act of faith in me. Music is not worth its na…"

"Very few rulers could come anywhere near Swati Tirunal in his patronage of arts, his catholicity of religious outlook…"

"He was devoted to Lord Padmanabha, the deity in the Tiruvantharapura temple, but he saw no distinction between Siva a…"

"It was a tradition with the Travancore royalty to prefix the names of their children with the asterism under which th…"

"Swati Tirunal, now thirteen... took up a book of mathematics and selecting the forty seventh proposition of Euclid sk…"

"By the time His Highness attained his majority, he had completed his education and become a perfect master of Sanskri…"

"On April 20, 1829, Swati Tirunal formally assumed charge of his kingdom. Those were tough times for Indians."

"There is perhaps no example of any conquest in which the natives have been so completely excluded from all share of t…"

"Creditably, notwithstanding his limited powers, he aimed to make Travancore a “model state.” A well-formulated code o…"

"My sense of the high advantage derived from this establishment in a scientific point of view, as I am fully sensible …"