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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."
[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 ...
Thirukkural: Chennai (Discovery Publications) 132: 2023: Meena Kandasamy: The Book of Desire: New Delhi (Penguin Random House India) Prose: Partial: Translated Book III alone from a feministic view point [8] 133: 2023: R. Natarajan: The Kural: English Translation of the Ancient Tamil Text Thirukkural: Chennai (Rare Publications) Complete: 134: ...
The picture shows fol. 2r, which contains Tirukkuṟaḷ 1 and 2 with commentary. The Kural is one of the most important forms of classical Tamil language poetry . It is a very short poetic form being an independent couplet complete in 2 lines, the first line consisting of 4 words and the second line consisting of 3.
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to ascertain the exact period of the text and its author and have employed, besides archaeological research, various historical references and linguistic methodologies to arrive at a date.
There are several pieces of evidence indicating that Parimelalhagar belonged to the Vaishnavite sect. [13] [17] [22] His explanations to Kural couplets 610 and 1103, his reference to the Nalayira Divya Prabandham in various instances, his employment of verses from the Tiruvaymoli in couplets 349 and 370, and his citing Nammalvar's verses in chapter 39 in the second book of the Kural text all ...
The first Sinhalese translation of the Tirukkural was made by Govokgada Misihamy, [2] with the assistance of S. Thambaiah, in 1961 under the title Thiruvalluvar's Kural, who considered his translation an 'adaptation' rather than a translation for he believed that no translation of any classic into a foreign language can do justice to the original.
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]