 His father was Subramanyan Namboothiripad, an eminent scholar of Sankskrit and mother was Savithri Antharjanam.At the age of five after the sacred thread ceremony, he was sent to the Panjal Veda School to study Samaveda.After his studies there he returned home and further studied Sanskrit, Vedas and also poetry, drama, literature and nyāya shāstra under his father.