Start by marking Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations as Want to Read.Each chapter has a specific subject ranging from ploughing a piece of land to ruling a country.According to the LIFCO Tamil-Tamil-English dictionary, the Tamil word Kural means Venpa verse with two lines.Thirukkural comes under one of the four categories of Venpas (Tamil ve.
![]() Thirukkural comes under one of the four categories of Venpas (Tamil verses) called Kural Venpa. A couplet consists of seven cirs, with four cirs on the first line and three on the second. A cir is a single or a combination of more than one Tamil word. For example, Thirukkural is a cir formed by combining the two words Thiru and Kural, i.e. Thiru Kural Thirukkural. It is has been translated to various other languages.citation needed Most of the Researchers and great Tamil Scholars like George Uglow Pope or G.U. Pope who had spent many years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English, which includes Thirukkural, have recognised Thiruvalluvar as a Paraiyar. Karl Graul (18141864) had already by 1855 characterized the Tirukkural as a work of Buddhist hue. In this connection it was then of particular interest that Thiruvalluvar, the author of the Tirukkural was identified as a Paraiyar in Tamil tradition (as, incidentally, were also other famous ancient Tamil writers, e.g., Auvaiyar; cf. Pope 1886: iii, xxi). Graul might have subsumed the Jains also under the name of the Buddhists (Graul 1865: xi note). Upon completion, Thiruvalluvar took the work (Thirukkural) to Madurai (Tamil Nadu, India) as per the prevailing practice of reading out new compositions in a public forum where critics and scholars would be present. The conceited scholars at Madurai, insisted on measuring the greatness of the work through a test where the manuscript would be placed with other works on a plank kept afloat in the tank of the Meenakshi temple and it was to be seen if the plank remained afloat. The significance of this is that the greatness of a work is realized on the basis of not the weight of its manuscript (written on Palm leaves) but the divine qualities of the work which forced the plank to stay afloat. It is said that to the amazement of the critics, the Sangam Plank shrunk itself in size to hold only the Kural manuscript and in the process throwing out the rest. ![]() I would say if you are only confined to read only novels; then I wont call you as a reader or a person who have a hobby of patience and imagination. There is so many untouched books in Indian Theology and philosophy and everyone run behind so called international bestsellers. I ever asked me what Am getting by reading a novel.a sense gratification fo.
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