The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love.Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural is a Tamil masterpiece of poetry and practical…
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The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love.Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural is a Tamil masterpiece of poetry and practical philosophy. Comprising 1,330 kurals in total, Tiruvalluvar's text illuminates a vision of goodness that is as worldly as it is spiritual, as rooted as it is uplifting, and as broad as it is detailed and nuanced.On par with other world classics such as the Tao Te Ching, The Kural has long been underserved by translators, who tend to sacrifice its poetry for what they see as its ideas. Each chapter consists of 10 short verses, or kurals, on a single theme, all arranged into 3 main sections: ethics at home, wealth in the world, and love in its many complexities.
This new translation by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma draws on two decades of study under the Tamil scholar Dr. K. V.