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The Tirukkuṟaḷ, or shortly the Kural, is a classic Tamil language text on commoner's morality consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. The text is divided into three books w
A typical published original Tamil version of the work
The statue of Valluvar, the author of the Kural text, on an islet in Kanyakumari facing the Indian coastline
Statue of Valluvar at an animal sanctuary in Tiruvallur. The plaque describes the Kural's teachings on ahimsa and non-killing, summing them up with the definition of veganism.
Tamil Wisdom, by Edward Jewitt Robinson, 1873, with the traditional portrait of Valluvar
Tirukkural translations
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Tirukkural, also known as the Kural, an ancient Indian treatise on the ethics and morality of the commoner, is one of the most widely translated non-religious works in the world. Authored by the ancie
Kural
…Tirukkuṟaḷ A typical published original Tamil version of the work Author Valluvar Original title திருக்குறள் Working title Kural Translator See list of translations Language Old Tamil Series Eighteen Lesser Texts Subject Ethics and cosmic order society politics economics and statecraft love and pleasure Genre Poetry…
Beschi, the earliest known translator of the Kural text
Thiruvalluvar Statue at Kanyakumari 03