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The Kural text has a total of 9310 cirs made of 12,000 Tamil words, of which about 50 words are from Sanskrit and the remaining are Tamil original words. [89] A manual count has shown that there are in total 42,194 letters in the entire work, with the shortest ones (kurals 833 and 1304) containing 23 letters and the longest ones (kurals 957 and ...
Veṇpā is a closely related family of very strict [6] Tamil verse forms. They differ chiefly in the number of standard lines that occur before the final short line. In kuṟaḷ-veṇpā (or simply "kural") a single 4-foot ("standard") line is followed by a final 3-foot ("short") line, resulting in a 7-foot couplet. [7]
Tirukkural in Easy English (Vol. 1) (Vol. 2 On Love) Chennai (Notion Press) 2021: 154 pages; published again in 2022 (300 pages) Kavikkuyil Anaivaariyar: Thirukkural: Pearls of Wisdom from Classical Tamil Series: Chennai (Notion Press) 2021: 322 pages: P. Subramanian: Thirukkural—A Comprehensive Vision for Life (Jazym Books) 2021: 552 pages ...
A Gift of Tamil: Translations of Tamil Literature (Edited by Paula Richman) New Delhi (Manohar and American Institute of Indian Studies) 42: 1995: T. R. Kallapiran: 43: 1995: D. V. G. Ramarathinam: Tirukkural (Thiyaga Durgam) Prose: Complete: 44: 1997: G. N. Das: Readings from Thirukkural: New Delhi (Abhinav Publication) Verse and Prose: Select
The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
Manakkudavar (c. 10th century CE) was a Tamil scholar and commentator known for his commentary on the Tirukkural. [1] His is the earliest of the available commentaries on the Kural text, [2] [3] [4] and hence considered to bear closest semblance with the original work by Valluvar. [5]
E. S. Ariel, also referred to as Monsieur Ariel (French for "Mr. Ariel") by his contemporaries, was a 19th-century French translator known for his French translation of the ancient Indian philosophical text of the Tirukkural.
Thiruvalluvar, one of the greatest authors in Indian history, wrote Thirukkural more than 2000 years ago. The Thirukkural is one of the most revered ancient works in the Tamil language. It is considered a 'common creed', providing a guide for human morals and betterment in life. The Thirukkural has been translated into several languages."