Vaidyaratnam P. Sankunni Varier (10 April 1869 – 30 January 1944) was an Ayurveda practitioner from what is now Kerala, India. He is well-regarded as the founder of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, a major Ayurvedic treatment centre in Kerala.
Panniyampally Sankunni Varier was born in 1869 in Kottakkal in erstwhile Malabar district in Madras Presidency. His parents were Marayamangalam Rama Varier and Panniyampally Kunjukutti Varasyar. He was the eldest son of his parents.
Young Sankunni started his lessons in Ayurveda under the classical Gurukula system from Kuttanchery Vasudevan Moos, a Brahmin who belonged to one of the eight families of Ayurvedic practitioner in Kerala, the ashtavaidyans, in the year 1886 as a seventeen-year-old.[1] He also acquired proficiency in the practice of Allopathy.[2]
In 1902, Varier founded Arya Vaidya Sala for the manufacture and sale of ayurvedic medicines which later became synonymous with ayurvedic treatment in India. The Pathshala established in 1917 has now become an Ayurveda College affiliated to Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS).
Varier is credited with pioneering the practice of manufacturing ayurvedic medicines.[4] He also wrote textbooks for students of Ayurveda. One of them, Ashtangasariram, won a certificate in 1932 from the National Organisation of Physicians. He was an art connoisseur and founded a drama troupe which was developed to be the famous Kathakali troupe, P.S.V. Natyasangham.[citation needed]
He died in 1944 at the age of 75.[citation needed] He was succeeded by his nephew P. Madhava Varier, who continued until his death in an aeroplane crash in 1953. Later Arya Vaidya Sala is managed by his youngest nephew Dr. P. K. Warrier, who continued for 68 years until his death in 2021, aged 100.
Major awards and Recognitionsedit
Stamp of India - 2002 - Arya Vaidya Sala Kottakkal and its founder P. S. Varier.
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