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Valluvar year, also known as the Thiruvalluvar year, is an officially recognized Tamil calendar system for use in Tamil Nadu. It is calculated on the basis of the supposed year of birth of the Tamil poet-philosopher Valluvar .
In January 1935, the Tamil Nadu government officially recognized 31 BCE as the year of Valluvar. As suggested by Maraimalai Adigal, the Valluvar Year was added to the calendar. [48] Thus, the Valluvar year is calculated by adding 31 to any year of the common era. [49] [50]
Notwithstanding the incessant debate on the precise date, taking the latest of the estimated dates, the Tamil Nadu government officially declared 31 BCE as the year of Valluvar, as suggested by Maraimalai Adigal, in 1921. [16] [7] [33] [34] [35] On 18 January 1935, Valluvar Year was officially added to the calendar. [17]
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.
The tradition of celebrating Valluvar's birthday annually on Vaikasi Anusham (a day in May) was officially accepted on 18 and 19 May 1935, when a group of Tamil scholars and researchers congregated at the Pachaiyappa's College auditorium under the leadership of Maraimalai Adigal and officially declared Valluvar year and the Valluvar Day ...
In Valluvar's theory of state, unlike Kautilya, the army (patai) is the most important element. Valluvar recommends that a well kept and well-trained army (patai) led by an able commander and ready to go to war is necessary for a state. [147] According to Hajela, the Porul of the Kural text is based on morality and benevolence as its ...
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As a work of literary art, [it] reveals a single structural plan, and looks like a work of a single master ... In the erotic couplets of the third part (Kamattuppal), the teacher, the preacher in Valluvar has stepped aside and the poet speaks almost the language of the superb love poetry of the classical Age." [35]