Kural
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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
Thiruvalluvar
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Thiruvalluvar was an Indian Tamil poet and philosopher. He is best known as the author of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, a collection of couplets on ethics, political and economic matters, and love. The text is cons
Traditional Shaivite portrait of Valluvar
Statue of Valluvar in the Thiruvalluvar Temple, Mylapore
A temple for Valluvar in Mylapore
Statue of Valluvar at Kanyakumari