The Edited books in Multidimensional approaches of C.W. Thamotharam Pillai

C.W. Thamotharam Pillai has got an important place among the Tamil Scholars of Jaffna. He became the forerunner in the field of editing and printing earlier literatures. He has been the first to edit and publish Tholkappiyam, the earliest Tamil grammar of Tamil language and kalitthokai, a representative of sangam literatures. Thus, he has been considered as the model for the followers. Not only he has been considered significantly as an editor, but as a scholar of multidimensional contributer also.  His contributions as an editor, a creative writer, the first editor of a daily, a person with social and religious attitudes are discussed in the paper with illustrations. His contributions to Tamil grammar and literature have been reviewed from the point of view of the above six dimensions.