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| birth_place = Siruppiddy, [[Jaffna District]], [[British Ceylon]]<br />
| death_date ={{death date and age|df=y|1901|1|1|1832|9|12}}<br />
| death_place =[[Purasawalkam]], [[Madras Presidency]], British India<br />
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'''Cirupitty Wyravanathar Thamotharampillai''' ('''Pillai''') ({{lang-ta|சி. வை. தாமோதரம்பிள்ளை}}; 12 September 1832 – 1 January 1901)), sometimes referred to by the initials as C. Y., devoted his energies to the work of editing and publishing some of the oldest works of classical Tamil poetry and grammar.<ref name="TT">{{Cite journal |last=Hoole |first=Ratnajeevan |author-link=Ratnajeevan Hoole |title=A Study in Tamil Biographies |url=http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php/Tamil_Times_1994.12 |journal=Tamil Times |publication-place=Surrey, UK |publication-date=15 December 1994 |volume=XIII |issue=12 |pages=16–18}}</ref><br />
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[[Jaffna]] born Pillai was the earliest scholar to systematically hunt for long-lost manuscripts and publish them using modern tools of textual criticism.<ref>A.R. Venkatachalapathy, ''Enna Prayocanam?' Constructing the canon in colonial Tamilnadu'', Indian Economic Social History Review 2005 42:535, p544</ref> These included:<br />
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* Viracoliyam (1881)<br />
* [[Iraiyanar Akapporul]] (1883)<br />
* [[Tolkappiyam]]-Porulatikaram (1885)<br />
* [[Kalittokai]] (1887) - the first of the Eight Anthologies (''[[Eṭṭuttokai]]'').<br />
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Pillai, along with his contemporaries such as [[U. V. Swaminatha Iyer]], was responsible for collecting and cataloguing numerous old [[Sangam period|Sangam]] manuscripts and preparing them into compilations and modern form.<br />
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Both Iyer and Pillai printed and published ''[[Tholkappiyam]]'', ''Nachinarkiniyar urai'' (1895), ''Tholkappiyam Senavariyar urai'', (1868), ''[[Manimekalai]]'' (1898), ''[[Cilappatikaram]]'' (1889), ''[[Pattupattu]]'' (1889), and ''[[Purananuru]]'' (1894), all with scholarly commentaries. Between them, they published more 100 works in all, including minor poems.<br />
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