 Pulavar was one of the first Tamil scholars invited to be examiner of the panel of Tamil scholars, a position held by him for the next 20 years.Pulavar contributed research articles regularly to journals and composed many poetic compositions and works in prose among which some are
"Tamil Pulavar Charithram" (History of Tamil poets), "Ilakkiya Sol Aharathy" (Dictionary of classical terms), "Neethi Neri Vilakkam" (An explanation of the judicial process), "Megathootha Karikai" and "Raguvamsa Charitha Amirtham" (Both religious works).Besides the above, he also published some of the Tamil classics, with his explanatory notes and comments.