Pranam Greatness of Tirukkural
1 Racist like Narayanaswamy may not know the difference between the Karpoora vaasanai and the articles he is often pronouncing in his 50% of words, he is exposing. According to Bhaskaran Nair, "Thirukkural begins where Bhagawat Gita exited," and "Tirukkural is not a matter for discussion or discourses as it remains to dismiss discussion and discourses." Further he added, “When I started making a deep and detailed study of Tirukkural I was really startled to herald a new World in it—a world that I have never had seen. As unable to bear or withstand its powerful light that struck against me I closed the book as one closes his eyes against the powerful Sun. I pondered over this, days and nights, with mixed feelings. Opening the book again I, from a distance, examined a few further lines. Spiritualism involved in the extremity of science is found anywhere in the book as the sun found reflected anywhere in the ocean or a clear body of water. 2 The Kural text, considered to have been written in the 1st century BCE remained unknown to the outside world for close to one and a half millennia. The first translation of the Kural text appeared in Malayalam <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam> in 1595 CE under the title *Tirukkural Bhasha* by an unknown author.{ The funny fellow is cracking a joke as if it is exposed by a chauvinist but the real one was from the land of Narayanaswamy only}. It was a prose rendering of the entire Kural, written closely to the spoken Malayalam of that time. However, again, this unpublished manuscript remained obscure until it was first reported by the Annual Report of the Cochin Archaeological Department for the year 1933–34. It took another three centuries before any translation was published in Malayalam. 3 Tirukkural <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirukkural>, also known as the Kural, an ancient Indian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_India> treatise on the ethics and morality of the commoner <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_ethics>, is one of the most widely translated non-religious works <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_works_by_number_of_translations> in the world. Authored by the ancient Tamil <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language> poet-philosopher Thiruvalluvar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvalluvar>, it has been translated into at least 42 world languages, with about 57 different renderings in the English language <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language> alone. 4 Kural has been translated into most languages, next only to the Bible and the Qur’an. The Hindus claim that their most popular scripture the Bhagavad Gita is the second most widely translated book after the Bible. It has been translated into at least 24 languages [* <http://www.beliefnet.com/story/46/story_4625_1.html>] and probably more. The Chinese claim that their classic Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu is the world’s most translated Book.[3] Victor Mair, a translator of Tao Te Ching, had this to say: "*Next to the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching is the most translated book in the world*".[4] Ninety one different translations of *Tao Te Ching* in 15 different languages (35 translations in English alone) are available at a single website on the net [* <http://www.oocities.org/onkellotus/TTK/_indexTTK.html>]. The Confucian Analects (*Lun Yu*) attributed. In October 2021, the Central Institute of Classical Tamil <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Institute_of_Classical_Tamil> announced its translating the Kural text into 102 world languages. In Malayalam latest translations rendered by M. R. R. Variar Thirukkural Kozhikode <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozhikode> (Poorna Publications) 2003 Shailaja Ravindran Thirukkural Kottayam <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kottayam> (D. C. Books) 2007 5 The 1330 couplets are written without a single poem (Kural) exceeding or falling shy of 7 words. It is the only book in the world that has the highest number of translations after the King James Bible. It begins in the name of Brahmam but still speaks of no particular religion or God. It virtually covers every virtue in human life – character, sex, love, wealth, life, governance, friendship, etc. The first letter of Thirukkural is அ; the last letter is ன், the first and last alphabets of Tamil language. 6 Such a magnum opus does not need the shabby comments of the worm existing on this earth because of its Karma who exposes his ignorance and the shallowness of knowledge in all respects. KR IRS 13/2/22 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopthfh9%2BxLMp1%3D8LqNeSwmTMYa5C4p40uEnxyAUFxHxYw%40mail.gmail.com.
