In Respectful Memory of © SHRI M.R. JAMBUNATHAN EDITOR, VEDAS & UPANISHADS IN TAMIL Born: 23-8-1896 Died: 18-12-1974 Published on the occasion of the posthumous release of the Tamil Translation of Rig Veda Samhita — Vol.-2 14th April 1980Smt. Shanti Jambunathan offers the Tamil translation of the Rig Veda Part | to Dr. Raja Ramanna, Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre to be reteased.Life Sketch of SHRI M. R. JAMBUNATHAN A life time service to the spread of Vedic culture . If India is rich in cultural heritage, it is due to the untiring, selfless and scholarly dedication of a few. who searched for truth and the inner meanings of life. As they strove, they found odds and found issues in- soluble; they found what Rabindranath Tagore called “a sense of the inexhaustible that is implicit in life”. But yet they. strove, delving deeper and deeper. The cultural heritage of this great nation is in fact the fruit of this endless striving — striving for sublime solutions to the eternal play of life. This search for sublime answers to eternal problems has also induced variety and diversity in thoughts propounded and paths recommended. In the -historical process of evolution, those’ thoughts and paths became the preserve of a few, though learned. But there were men who not only imbibed those thoughts, and learning but also sought their communication to the general populace, In every language and in every region of this great nation, we have always found such men of learning. The late Shri M. R. Jambunathan, who died on 18th December, 1974 at the age of 78, was one such Vedic and Upanashadic Scholar, who while he lived, lived a rich life and when ‘he died, died with a rich sense of fulfilment. Born in. Manakkal, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu on August 23, 1896, the late Shri Manakkal Ramaswamy Jambunathan was educated in Tamil, Sanskrit and English. He attained great scholarship in these languages, particularly in Tamil and Sanskrit. It was yet the firm conviction of the late Shri Jambunathan 1