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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 ...
Tirukkural in Easy English (Vol. 1) (Vol. 2 On Love) Chennai (Notion Press) 2021: 154 pages; published again in 2022 (300 pages) Kavikkuyil Anaivaariyar: Thirukkural: Pearls of Wisdom from Classical Tamil Series: Chennai (Notion Press) 2021: 322 pages: P. Subramanian: Thirukkural—A Comprehensive Vision for Life (Jazym Books) 2021: 552 pages ...
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'.
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 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to ascertain the exact period of the text and its author and have employed, besides archaeological research, various historical references and linguistic methodologies to arrive at a date.
John Lazarus (1845–1925) was a Christian missionary to India who rendered the Tirukkural into English.He revised the work of his predecessor William Henry Drew, who had already translated the first 63 chapters (out of the total of 133 chapters) of the Tirukkural, and translated the remaining portion of the Kural text.
Tirukkural remains one of the most widely translated non-religious works in the world. As of 2014, there were at least 57 versions available in the English language alone. English, thus, continues to remain the language with most number of translations available of the Kural text.