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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."
The Tirukkural belongs to the Late-Sangam period and has been listed as one of the chief text of the Sangam corpus.However, scholars find it difficult to ascertain the exact period of the text and its author and have employed, besides archaeological research, various historical references and linguistic methodologies to arrive at a date.
[253] The Indian nationalist and Yoga guru Sri Aurobindo stated, "Thirukkural is gnomic poetry, the greatest in planned conception and force of execution ever written in this kind." [ 253 ] E. S. Ariel , who translated and published the third part of the Kural to French in 1848, called it "a masterpiece of Tamil literature, one of the highest ...
Tirukkural, or the Kural, an ancient Indian treatise on common moralities, has been given by various names ever since its writing between the first century BCE and the 5th century CE. Originally referred to as Muppāl , perhaps as presented by its author Valluvar himself at the ruler's court, the work remains unique among ancient works in that ...
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]
The book exclusively deals with dharma, which is common to the entire work of the Tirukkural, thus providing the essence of the work as a whole. [10] [11] [12] An exemplification for this is found in verse 34 of Purananuru, [13] [14] where its author Alathur Kilar refers to the entire work of the Tirukkural by simply calling it as 'Aṟam'.
In 2024, K. M. A. Ahamed Zubair, associate professor of Arabic at The New College in Chennai, made an Arabic translation of the Kural, namely Al-Abyath Al-Baariza: Thirukkural (الأبيات البارزة :تيركورل). Published by the Shams Publishing Inc. in London, it contains 300 pages with a critical introduction of Thirukkural and ...
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