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The Government of Tamil Nadu celebrates the 15th (16th on leap years) of January (the second of the month of 'Thai' as per Tamil Calendar) as Thiruvalluvar Day in the poet's honour, as part of the Pongal celebrations. [121] Thiruvalluvar Day was first celebrated on 17 and 18 May 1935. [122]
Poet Thiruvalluvar. The combined height of the statue and pedestal is 133 feet (41 metres), denoting the 133 chapters of the Thirukkural.This includes a 95-foot (29-metre) sculpture of Valluvar standing upon a 38-foot (12-metre) pedestal that represents the 38 chapters of Virtue, the first of the three books of the Kural text.
In 1968, the Tamil Nadu government made it mandatory to display a Kural couplet in all government buses. The train running a distance of 2,921 kilometers between Kanyakumari and New Delhi is named by the Indian Railways as the Thirukural Express. [272] The Kural is part of Tamil people's everyday life across the global Tamil diaspora. K.
Moreover, the Tamil saint Thiruvalluvar is believed to have been a member of this community [7] and there is a subsect of Valluvars claiming descent from him. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] An independent community
Tiruvalluva Malai is a collection of verses said to have been composed by gods, goddesses, and poets of different times, all belonging to the legendary Tamil Sangam at Madurai. [ 3 ] [ 16 ] A total of 55 poets have composed their encomia in 55 verse in the collection, all written several centuries after the composition of the Kural text. [ 17 ]
Saint Valluvar Valluvar: Traditional: One of the twelve most traditional names. [9] The book came to be called by the name of its author, which is a traditional Tamil literary practice known as Karuthāgupeyar. [13] Tiruvalluvar was employed by Swaminatha Desikar and Valluvar by Umapathi Shivacchariyar. [14] 7: பொய்யாமொழி ...
The first translation of the Kural text into Hindi was probably made by Khenand Rakat, who published the translated work in 1924. [1] [2] Khan Chand Rahit published a translation in 1926. [3] In 1958, the University of Madras published a translation by Sankar Raju Naidu under the title "Tamil Ved."
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.