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"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C

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Thirukural - Sirkali Govindarajan
Thirukural - 1330 Couplets in Tamil - unicode - Inaimathi - tscii - PDF - etext in Inaimathi - etext in Mylai
Thirukural - English Translations...
1. Kaviyogi cuttAnTanta pAratiyAr: unicode - TSCII - etext - pdf
2.Subramuniswamy, Himalayan Academy
3.Rev. Dr. G. U. Pope, Rev W. H. Drew, Rev. John Lazarus and Mr F. W. Ellis pdf - unicode - tscii
A Short Introduction to Thirukural: திருக்குறள் - ஒரு அறிமுகம், Dr.S.Jayabarathi
On ThirukkuRaL - Professor C.R. Krishnamurti in Thamizh Literature Through the Ages
திருவள்ளுவர் என்னும் நண்பர் - சுந்தர ராமசாமி, 2000
"Tirukkural is the life, Tiruvasagam is the heart, and Tirumandiram is the soul of Tamil culture..."
Swami Shivananda in Background to the Tirukkural
Thirukral Video Clip - Thirukrak Navarasa Natyam
Thirukural on CD
Background to the Tirukkural - Swami Shivananda, The Divine Life Society, Rishikesh
".. Tirukkural is the life, Tiruvasagam is the heart, and Tirumandiram is the soul of Tamil culture..."
Thirukural: Reflections in Tamil by M.Karunanidhi, sometime Chief Minister, Tamil Nadu
திருக்குறள் - Thirukural -Dr. Kalaignar Urai

"இமயமலைக்குப் பொன்னாடை போர்த்துகிற முயற்சியில் ஈ.டுபடுவதும், திருக்குறளுக்கு உரை எழுதுவதும் ஒன்றுதான் என்பதை நானறியாதவனல்லன் முன்னூற்று ஐம்பத்து நான்கு குறட்பாக்களைக் கொண்டு குறளோவியம் எழுதி முடித்தபிறகு ஆயிரத்து முன்னூற்று முப்பது குறட்பாக்களுக்கும் உரை எழுத வேண்டும் என்ற ஆர்வத்துடிப்பு என்னை ஆட்கொண்டது. அதனை நிறைவேற்றி மகிழ, `முரசொலி' நாளேட்டில் ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் நான் எழுதிய திருக்குறள் உரைகளின் தொகுப்பே இந்தநூல்.."

Thiruvalluvar’s Vision:
Polity and Economy in
Thirukkural - K. V. Nagarajan
Introduction to Thirukural & its Author in English and in Tamil - N.V.K. Ashraf
Thirukural Translations in French - Hindi - Kannada -Russian - Arabic - Malayalam
About Thirukural at Tamil Guardian - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
Thirukural in English - Angler Web Services
Thirukural at Chennai Network
Thirukural at Tamilpower
TirukkuraL, the Ancient Tamil Book of Wisdom - Selected Chapters in Tamil with English Translation and Explanatory Notes
The Tamil Thirukural Browser - Siddharthan Ramachandramurthi
Thirukural Navarasa Natyam - a dance drama based on Kuralovium
Thirukural Screen Saver
Thirukural - on the World Wide Web - Dr.Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram
Thirukural.Net
Thiruvalluvar Page
திருவள்ளுவர் பக்கம் at Tamil Neri Association
Thiruvalluvar - His Economic Ideas and their Relevance Today - Fr. Felix Raj, SJ
Thiruvalluvar at Rex Pay, Humanistic Texts
Thiruvalluvar at Wikpedia
About Thirukural and About Thiruvalluvar

Thiruvalluvar Comes to Life at Kanyakumari
Thiruvalluvar on the Rocks in Mid Ocean at Kanyakumari
Valluvar Kottam, Chennai
Viral Nuniyil Kural - On Your Computer Screen
International Thirukkural Conference - July 8-10, 2005

State of Maryland Thirukkural Proclamation, July 2005

Thirukural - Maryland Proclamation

Books on Thirukural
at Amazon.com
*Weaver's Wisdom: Ancient Precepts for a Perfect Life - American English Translation of the Thirukural - Satguru Subramuniyaswami
*Thirukkural (Original in Tamil with English Translation) - W. H. Drew, John Lazarus (Translators)
*The Kural (Penguin Classics)
by Tiruvalluvar, P.S. Sundaram (Translator)
*Sacred Kural of Tiruvalauva Nayanar English Translation by G.U. Pope
*Tirouvallouvar : Kural Traudit Du Tamoul (Tamil / French)
by Gnandu Diagou
* Tirukural
by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
*Immortal Kural
by V.C. Kulandai Swamy
*The Bible and Kural : a comparison
by V. Antony John Alaharasan

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Thirukkural of Thiruvalluvar
திருவள்ளுவரின் திருக்குறள்

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- Subramaniya Bharathy

"இறைவன் மனிதனுக்குச் சொன்னது கீதை, மனிதன் இறைவனுக்குச் சொன்னது திருவாசகம், மனிதன் மனிதனுக்குச் சொன்னது திருக்குறள்" - Dr.S.Jayabarathi in an Introduction to Thirukkural

"The following works of art and literature are among the most remarkable contributions of the Tamil creative genius to the world's cultural treasure and should be familiar to the whole world and admired and beloved by all in the same way as the poems of Homer, the dramas of Shakespeare, the pictures of Rembrandt, the cathedrals of France and the sculptures of Greece..... the Thirukural, one of the great books of the world, one of those singular emanations of the human heart and spirit which preach positive love and forgiveness and peace....." The Tamil Contribution to World Civilisation - Czech Professor Dr. Kamil Zvelebil in Tamil Culture - Vol. V, No. 4. October, 1956

"...On the most varied questions concerning the conduct of man to himself and to the world, Thirukural's utterances are characterised by nobility and good sense. There hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of maxims in which we find so much lofty wisdom..." Albert Schwieitzer

Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar Statue at Cape Comorin, Tamil Nadu

Thirivalluvar

Thirukural written by Thiruvalluvar consists of three books, the first book on aram (the way or dharma), the second on porul (material or artha) and the third on inbam (joy or kama).

There are 37 chapters in the first book, the first four called payiram or prefactory matter, the next twenty about ill-aram (the householder’s dharma) and the next thirteen about turavaram (the path of renunciation)

The second book on porul contains seventy chapters, the first twenty dealing with kings and their duties, the succeeding thirty two chapters with the other matters concerning the state, and next thirteen, with sundry concerns.

The third book on inbam contains twenty five chapters, the first seven being on pre marital love (kalavu) and the next eighteen on marital love.

There are 133 chapters in all, each chapter contains ten distichs in the metre known as Kural and the work itself is now called by that name. Professor S.Vaiyarapuri Pillai comments in his well regarded ‘History of Tamil Language and Literature’:

"Never before nor since, did words of such profound wisdom issue forth from any sage in Tamil land…

Manu had features which were peculiar to his own time… His society was god ordained, hierarchic in its structure and unalterably fixed by the Karmic influence. It denied equality between man and man, in the eye of the law. Kautiliya was more a politician that statesman. He found in his great work room for a statecraft motivated by an unquenching thirst for conquest … Vatsyayana devoted himself in his Kamasutra to a treatment of carnal pleasure in all its ramifications and he had no eyes for the enobling aspect of love which is one of the most fundamental urges in human nature.

Valluvar, the Tamil sage excels each one of these ancients in his respective sphere. He makes humanity and love the cementing force of society, and considerations of birth are of no account to him. His political wisdom is characterised by a breadth of vision at once noble and elevating. The sexual love which he depicts with inimitable grace and delicacy is idealistic, even if it be schematic and mannered. Its romance is ethereal and carries us to an atmosphere where purity of emotion, freshness and beauty reign supreme…

The utter simplicity of his language, his crystal clear utterances, precise and forceful, his brevity, his choice diction, no less his inwardness, his learning, culture and wisdom, his catholicity and eclecticism, his gentle humour and wholesome counsel have made him an object of veneration for all time and his book is considered the Veda of the Tamils.

The genius of the Tamil race has flowered to perfection in this great author … (and) the influence which his work, since its publication (more than 1400 years ago) exercised over the mind, life and literature of the Tamils is phenomenal."

V.V.S.Aiyar, an early Tamil revolutionary wrote in the preface to his English translation of the Kural in March1915:

"...Very few in the world outside of the Tamil country have heard the name of the poet whose work is presented here in a new English garb. And yet he is one of those seers whose message is intended not merely for their own age or country but for all time and for all mankind... Tiruvalluvar has given to the world a work to which, in perfection of form, profundity of thought, nobleness of sentiment, and earnestness of moral purpose, very few books outside the grand scriptures of humanity can at all be compared. Indeed his work is eulogised by the Tamil people as the Tamil Veda, the Universal Veda, the later Veda, the Divine Veda, etc. etc. It is a great pity that such a treasure should have been confined for so many ages to one single people even in Hindustan...

...It is my object not only to spread a knowledge of Tiruvalluvar's grand work as widely as possible in the world, but also to induce my own countrymen speaking languages other than Tamil to retranslate it into their different vernaculars, so that the words of a great moral teacher who intended his message for all the world and for all time may not fail at least now to reach the ears of the poorest of the poor and the simplest of the simple of his own countrymen, and to sow in their hearts the seeds of a noble, dignified, virtuous and manly life..

...In Part I, under the title of righteousness, our author treats of the life of the householder and of the life of the ascetic...What is the grand feature of the first part is its healthy outlook on life. 'The chiefest blessing,' declares our author, 'is an honourable home, and its crowning glory its worthy offspring.' How charming is his love for children! 'The touch of our children is the delight of the body.' 'It is only they who have not listened to the prattle of their little ones that are attracted by the guitar and the flute!' The poet insists greatly on the love of mankind and the honouring of guests as among the chief virtues of man...the first section ends... with a chapter on Glory, for 'They alone live who live without blemish; and they alone die who lived without glory.' It will thus be seen that it is a cheerful, smiling, benignant humanity that Tiruvalluvar wants to create in his country and the world...

"The fact that (Part II on Wealth) is about twice the size of the first and thrice the size of the third shows what importance the sage gives to politics and wealth in his scheme of life. As in the first part the poet shows himself as a moral teacher of the very highest order, so in this part he appears as a consummate statesman and thorough man of the world..."

....(And in Part III on Love) the most ardent admirers of 'Locksley Hall' will have to admit that the Tamil poet is easily the superior of Tennyson in analysing the infinite number of moods that chase each other in the agitated minds of lovers..

...Whether he speaks of moral duties or State policy, of the principles of action to be followed in order to succeed in life, or the varying emotions in the trembling hearts of lovers, everywhere Tiruvalluvar has sounded the depths of human thought. The prophets of the world have not emphasised the greatness and power of the moral law with greater insistence or force; Bhishma or Kautilya, Kamandaka or Ram Das, Vishnu Sharman or Machiavelli or Confucius have no more subtle counsel to give on the conduct of the State; 'Poor Richard' has no wiser say for raising up of clever businessmen; and Kalidasa or Shakespeare have no deeper knowledge of the lovers' heart and its varied moods than this weaver of Mylapore! Such is the universality of mind of this great seer who was born in the Tamil country but who belongs to all mankind..."

i HAVE COLECTED AND SHARED HERE ,THE INTRODUCTION TO

THE WORLD FAMOUS POEMS CALLED TIRUKURAL , AND ABOUT THE

AUTHOR SRI TIRUVALLUAVR, I WISH TO SHARE ALL HIS POEMS WITH U ALL . DAILY I WISH TO WRITE SOME OF HIS POEMS , JUST 10 EVERYDAY.

iTHANK U ALL FOR READING THIS TREASURE.

WITH HUMBLE PRANAMS TO SAGE TIRUVALLUVAR,

prasanna.