Gnanalaya is one of India's largest private libraries with rare first edition books, The book collector, The Hindu, 17.2.2013 founded by B. Krishnamurthy and his wife Dorothy. Bonding with books, The Hindu, Metroplus, Trichy, 9.10.2010
Location The library is situated at Palaniappa Nagar, Thirukkokarnam in Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, India. It has been built at a height of 14 feet with windows at nine feet to let natural light and air work wonders.
Collection Having more than 15,000 titles in English and 70,000 titles in Tamil it has a large collection of rare first editions of Tamil books and had selected treasures. This library was instrumental in reviving old and out of print, resulting in more than 3000 books being reprinted.
Selected First Editions Veeramamunivar's 'Sathur Agarathy' (1842) French-Tamil Dictionary (1855) Tamil-Latin dictionary (1867) Standard edition of the Thiruvarutpa (1887) Vedanayagam Pillai's first novel 'Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram'
Other selected treasures Letters of Rajaji Bharathiyar's daughter Thangammal Bharathi's first editions of Bharathi and Bharathidasan Revolutionary magazines 'Kudiarasu', 'Viduthalai' Gandhi's 'Harijan' Back issues of 'Reader's Digest' from the first Indian edition Tamil literary magazines from 1920 to 2010.
References
External links Gnanalaya Research Library, Pudukottai, in Tamil Gnanalaya - Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) Gnanalaya Research Library, in Tamil Stalin donates 370 books, The Hindu, Trichy, 30 March 2017