 | The topic of this articlemay not meet Wikipedia'snotability guideline for academics. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citingreliable secondary sources that areindependent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to bemerged,redirected, ordeleted. Find sources: "P. C. Kokila" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(April 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
P. C. Kokila | |
|---|---|
 Kokila with herKural translation released by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in 2015 | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | TranslatingTirukkural intoGujarati |
P. C. Kokila is an Indian professor of Hindi, who is best known for translating theTirukkural intoGujarati.[1][2]
P. C. Kokila was born inBhavnagar inGujarat. In 1981, she completed her bachelor's degree inmathematics from theUniversity of Madras. She completed her MA inHindi from theDakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha in 1984 and went on to obtain an MPhil in 1986 and a doctorate in 1994. In 1998, she completed her MA in philosophy and religion from theMadurai Kamaraj University. She began her career in 1986 as a Hindi pradhyapika (pundit) in Hindi Teaching Scheme of the Indian government's Ministry of Home Affairs. From 1988, she has been working in the Hindi department at thePresidency College inChennai and became the associate professor and head of the department. She has presented 24 research papers, of which 16 have been published.[3]
Kokila translated the ancient Tamil moral work of theTirukkural, which was published in 2015 by theCentral Institute of Classical Tamil and released by the Prime Minister of IndiaNarendra Modi.[1][2] She is the second translator of the work in Gujarati, after Najuklal Choksi in 1931 andKantilal L. Kalani in 1971.[4]
Kokila considers the Tirukkural as the work that influencedJapaneseHaiku poetry, given the similarity between the two and both being spiritual and drawing examples from nature. According to her the travellingBuddhist monks acted as the conduits between the two cultures.[2]
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
