Vaidyaratnam P. S. Varier

He is well-regarded as the founder of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, a major Ayurvedic treatment centre in Kerala.

Panniyampally Sankunni Varier was born in 1869 in Kottakkal in erstwhile Malabar district in Madras Presidency.

Young Sankunni started his lessons in Ayurveda under the classical Gurukula system from Kuttanchery Vasudevan Moos, a Brahmin who belonged to one of the eight families of Ayurvedic practitioner in Kerala, the ashtavaidyans, in the year 1886 as a seventeen-year-old.

The Pathshala established in 1917 has now become an Ayurveda College affiliated to Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS).

[citation needed] He was succeeded by his nephew P. Madhava Varier, who continued until his death in an aeroplane crash in 1953.