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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."
"Valluvar is a cunning technician, who, by prodigious self-restraint and artistic vigilance, super-charges his words with meaning and achieves an incredible terseness and an irreducible density. His commentators have, therefore, to squeeze every word and persuade it to yield its last drop of meaning."
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'.
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to ascertain the exact period of the text and its author and have employed, besides archaeological research, various historical references and linguistic methodologies to arrive at a date.
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 process of writing simplified commentaries began in 1949 with M. Varadharajan's exegesis on the Tirukkural titled Tirukkural Thelivurai, [33] [34] whose 175th edition was published in 2003. [33] Several similar commentaries started appearing on other ancient works such as the Tolkappiyam and the Athichudi. [33]
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 ...
Poet Thiruvalluvar. The combined height of the statue and pedestal is 133 feet (41 metres), denoting the 133 chapters of the Thirukkural.This includes 95 feet (29 metres) sculpture of Valluvar standing upon a 38 feet (12 metres) pedestal that represents the 38 chapters of Virtue, the first of the three books of the Kural text.