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The Statue of Wisdom, or the Valluvar Statue, is a 41-metre-tall(133 ft) stone sculpture of the Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar, known as Thiruvalluvar, the author of the Thirukkural, an ancient Tamil work on morality.
This temple is famous for its "Nandikesvarar thirukalyanam " (March/April) which is conducted yearly. The people of thirumalapadi celebrate the festival grandly. It also has a statue of Thiruvalluvar, which was made with 750 kg of Bronze. It is the biggest metallic statue of Thiruvalluvar in Tamil Nadu. [4]
A 12-foot statue of Valluvar was also installed in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. [116] [117] There is also a statue of Valluvar outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in Russell Square, London. [118] [119] A life-size statue of Valluvar is one among an array of statues installed by the Tamil Nadu government on the stretch of the Marina. [120]
World's second tallest Hanuman statue: 2003 Thiruvalluvar Statue: Thiruvalluvar: Kanyakumari: Tamil Nadu: 40.5 133: The entire 133 feet monument depicts the three sections of Thirukkural, namely, virtue (38 chapters), wealth (70 chapters) and love (25 chapters). [6] The statue has a height of 95 feet (29 m) and stands upon a 38-foot (11.5 m ...
The construction of the Valluvar Kottam was conceived and executed by the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi during the 1970s. [1] It was designed by South Indian traditional architect V. Ganapati Sthapati, who is also the architect of the Thiruvalluvar Statue at Kanyakumari. [3]
Tiruchuli Thiruvalluvar Temple is a Hindu temple at Periya Pudupatti in Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to poet-saint Valluvar, the author of the Kural text. It is one of the few temples in the state of Tamil Nadu dedicated to Valluvar. Valluvar is worshiped as the 64th nayanmar of the Shaivite tradition and is taken in annual procession.
The Thiruvalluvar Statue, whose construction started in 1990 and completed in 1999, [77] is a 133-feet high (statue height 95 feet erected on a 38 feet stone pedestal [75]) dedicated to the Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar, who wrote Thirukkural, considered one of the greatest works in literature of morality and ethics. The height signifies the 133 ...
The Thiruvalluvar Statue is a 7,000-ton stone statue of poet and philosopher Valluvar. It has a height of 29 metres (95 feet) and stands upon an 11.5-metre (38 ft) rock that represents the 38 chapters of virtue in the Thirukkural .