His main literary contribution is Malayalam translation of Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas (Thulasidasa Ramayana), which has 26152 lines and 46 Sanskrit verses.
Rajagopal was born on May 21, 1932 to C. S. Gopalakaimal and K. Parukutty Amma at Neeretupuram of Kuttanad Thalavadi in present-day Alappuzha district of Kerala, India.
[2] He went to Lucknow University on a scholarship given by the Government of India to students from non-Hindi states to study Hindi, and passed MA from there with a gold medal.
[4] Other contributions include Nadatrayam (Poetry Collection), Bharata Brihad Tarika (Translation), Bharathiya Samskarathinu Jaina Mathathinte Sambhavana (Contribution of Jain Religion to Indian Culture) (Study) and a Hindi-English-Malayalam Trilingual Dictionary.
[6] Rajagopal completed the translation of Tulasidasasa Ramayana, which has 26152 lines and 46 Sanskrit verses, in five and a half years.