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The first Urdu translation of the Kural text was by Hazrat Suhrawardy, a professor of Urdu Department of Jamal Mohammad College, Tiruchirappalli. [1] It was published by Sahitya Academy in 1965, with a reprint in 1994. The translation is in prose and is not a direct translation from Tamil but based on English translations of the original.
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.
By the turn of the twenty-first century, the Kural had already been translated to more than 37 world languages, [15] with at least 24 complete translations in English language alone, by both native and non-native scholars. By 2014, the Kural had been translated to more than 42 languages, with 57 versions available in English.
'sacred verses'), or shortly the Kural (Tamil: குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text on commoner's morality consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. [4] The text is divided into three books with aphoristic teachings on virtue , wealth and love , respectively.
Kural, The Great Book of Tiruvalluvar: Madras (Rochouse and Sons Ltd.) Prose: Selections: Translated only select couplets from Books I and II. Reprints in 1937, 1965, and 1973 20: 1942: M. S. Purnalingam Pillai: The Kural in English: Tirunelveli (Sri Kanthimathi Vilasam Press) Prose: Complete: Reprints in 1999 and 2007 by IITS 21: 1946: S. M ...
The most common alias used of the Kural text. It is also given in English as "The Universal Scripture", "The Universal Veda" and "The Universal Bible". 11: தமிழ்மனு நூல் (Tamilmanu ṉūl) The book of Tamil Manu: Traditional: Parimelalhagar's commentary (c. 13th century CE) One of the twelve most traditional names. [9] 12
The Book of Aṟam exclusively deals with virtues independent of the surroundings, including the vital principles of non-violence, moral vegetarianism, veracity, and righteousness. [1] [2] The Book of Aṟam is the most important and the most fundamental book of the Kural. [3] This is revealed in the very order of the book within the Kural ...
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