Over a period of time, I learnt many couplets and its meanings by heart.' He extended that he wanted to do something special for Kalam's birth anniversary which falls today, October 15 through his effort in a good way. I developed an interest for Thirukkural while getting to know more about the late scientist. S Vijaykumar has told, 'During my childhood days in Theni, I was inspired by Kalam and his writings. Tamil Nadu Schools black board is soon to be replaced with Smart Boards This hard effort is S Vijayakumar's attempt to mark Kalam's 89th birth anniversary. At a stretch of 22 hours straight, he has finished writing all 1,330 Tamil couplets with their explanation in English. The Kural is considered a masterpiece and one of the most important texts of the Tamil Literature.A pure love on the former president and the missile man of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam a 32-year-old Tirupur man took shape as a 1,330 handwritten postcards with one Thirukkural on each card. The text has been translated into at least 40 Indian and non-Indian languages. The traditional accounts describe it as the last work of the third Sangam, but linguistic analysis suggests a later date of 450 to 500 CE and that it was composed after the Sangam period. The text has been dated variously from 300 BCE to 5th century CE. Considered one of the great works on ethics and morality, it is known for its universality and secular nature. The text is divided into three books, each with aphoristic teachings on virtue (aram), wealth (porul) and love (inbam). Each Kural has exactly 7 words, 4 in one line and 3 in the next, each word having anywhere from 1 to 3 syllables. Thirukural adheres to the grammatical pattern of Venpa - one of the strictest forms of poetic grammar, in Tamil.

Thirukkural is the book translated to most number of languages after Bible. It is written by Valluvar, also known in full as Thiruvalluvar. Thirukkural - (திருக்குறள், literally Sacred Verses), or shortly the Kural, is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 couplets or Kurals. If the number is not given, it will return a random kural from the book. (1-1330)įor Eg: Ask Read Thirukkural for kural 15

Read Thirukkural - This action will give you a kural from Thirukkural when asked with the particular number of the kural.

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