page_title: Vaidyaratnam Triprangode Moossad
section_title: Life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Vaidyaratnam Triprangode Moossad / Life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Vaidyaratnam T P Moossad alongwith his several disciples and family members
context_page_description: Vaidyaratnam Triprangode Parameswaran Moossad was an Ayurvedic physician from Kerala, India. He is well-regarded as the First Ayurvedic practitioner in Kerala to be awarded with the title of "Vaidyaratna", given to the native medical practitioners in India, by the erstwhile British Raj in India. Vaidya, in Indian language means a medical practitioner, and ratna means jewel. Only three such awards were ever given by the British Raj in the state of Kerala, which was part of Madras Presidency then. The second award was given to E.T.Narayanan Mooss of Thaikkattussery, in the year of 1923 and third was given to Vaidyaratnam P. S. Warrier of Kottakkal in the year 1934. The second and third Vaidyaratna awardees had business acumen as well and they had established their Ayurvedic hospitals which are being run by their successors even today. In contrast, the first awardee, Triprangode Parameswaran Moossad had not established any commercial institutions.
context_section_description: Triprangode Kizhakkempullath Parameswaran Moossad was born in 1847 in Triprangode in Malappuram district in Kerala, India, in a family of Sanskrit and Ayurveda scholars belonging to the Moossad community . 
  He learned his lessons in Sanskrit and Ayurveda system of medicine under his own paternal uncle, Kizhakkempullath Sankaran Moossad (alias Kunjunni Moossad) who was a renowned scholar of his times.
  Information on his life and career can be traced only through documents written in Malayalam. An old Malayalam book, published in the year 1920, and reproduced in a recent Malayalam book  gives a very brief account of his life and career.  According to this, he was a scholarly practitioner of Ayurveda and also a social reformer, highly acclaimed for his pro-people attitudes.  He was part of the administration as Taluk Board Member and District Board Member for several years.  He had been a medical adviser at several palaces - Kollenkode Palace, Kadathanadu Palace, Chirakkal Palace, Mankada Palace etc. 
  He died in 1919 at the age of 72. He was succeeded by his son Kizhakkempullath Narayanan Moossad, who was also a practitioner of Ayurveda, but could not reach the professional excellence as achieved by his father.
caption: Vaidyaratnam T P Moossad with disciples and family members - photo dated 1914
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