[3] He also worked as a law scholar for the Supreme Court of East India Company.
More than a third of his life span was spent in teaching Telugu in schools and in the Presidency college, Madras.
Paravastu Chinnayasuri was born in 1806/7 in Perambur of Chengalpattu district in a Satani family[4][5] He was the son of Venkata Rangayya, a Vaishnavite scholar.
He also worked as a law scholar for the Supreme Court of East India Company.
[7] He translated Thomas Lumisden Strange's Manual of Hindoo Law of 1856, entitling it the Hiṃdūdharmaśāstrasaṃgrahamu.