The Kural is one of the most important forms of classical Tamil language poetry. It is a very short poetic form being an independent couplet complete...

treatise on secular ethics and morality. Kural may also refer to: Kural (poetic form), one of the most important forms of classical Tamil language poetry This...

one of the two Tamil poetic forms explained by the Tolkappiyam, the other one being neduvenpāttu. According to Miron Winslow, kuṟaḷ is used as a literary...

one of the poetic forms in the Tamil language. The armour and meditation parts of the Introduction section employ the Venpa metre and Kural venba metre...

Tamil poetic forms into two, namely, kuruvenpāttu and neduvenpāttu. Kuruvenpāttu came to be called kural pāttu and, eventually, kural. The word kural applies...

Kural is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. In the introductory chapters of the Kural,...

books or parts of the Kural literature, authored by the ancient Indian philosopher Valluvar. Written in High Tamil distich form, it has 25 chapters each...

Tirukkural, also known as the Kural, an ancient Indian treatise on the ethics and morality of the commoner, is one of the most widely translated non-religious...

syllables and their "weight" Metrical foot (aka poetic foot): the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European...

well known for their writing in heroic couplets. The Poetic epigram is also in the couplet form. Couplets can also appear as part of more complex rhyme...

shortly known as the Kural, is a classic Tamil sangam treatise on the art of living. Consisting of 133 chapters with 1330 couplets or kurals, it deals with...

translations of the Kural text available in Hindi. Many of these translations are in verse form. The first translation of the Kural text into Hindi was...

Thirukkural. He was the last among the canon of ten medieval commentators of the Kural text most highly esteemed by scholars. He was also among the five oldest...

venba. Tirukkural comes under a sub-category of venba called Kural venba, wherein each kural or couplet has only two lines. Nala venba1 is another classical...

களவியல் என்ற இறையனார் அகப்பொருள்) is an early mediaeval work on Tamil poetics, specifically, on the literary conventions associated with the akam tradition...

(Tamil: குறுந்தொகை, meaning the short-collection) is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the second of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai)...

purchase and consume meat, no one would slaughter and offer meat for sale. (Kural 256) Some Brahmins—Kashmiri Pandits and Bengali Brahmins—have traditionally...

and was well received at his Chola court. It has been admired for its poetic form, appealing story-line, and theological message. U. V. Swaminatha Iyer...

Nerisai’ where each kural was preceded by a two-line story from Indian epics and puranas to elucidate the message of that particular kural. After his mentor's...

author endeavours to demonstrate that the entire Sangam poetic corpus follows the "Kavya" form of Sanskrit poetry" – Tieken 2001, p. 18. Vaidyanathan,...

consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. In the introductory chapters of the Kural, Valluvar cites Indra, the king of heaven...

translation is considered by many as more comprehensive and poetic than the earlier translations of the Kural text. The publisher of the translation work ‘Sivalayam’...

adapted themes by Horace, Ovid, Petrarch and modern Latin writers, forming a new poetic style on those models. The English poets and translators sought to...

Istanbul came to designate the entire city. Shaw, Stanford J.; Shaw, Ezel Kural (1977b). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Vol. 2: Reform...

religious contexts, the Tamil language is usually more preferred for its more poetic nature and relatively low incidence of consonant clusters. Unlike other...

comprehensive manual of ethics, polity and love, containing 1,330 distichs or kural divided into chapters of ten distichs each: the first thirty-eight on ethics...

Vinayagar Agaval is a devotional poetic hymn to the Hindu deity Ganesha. It was written in the 10th century during the Chola dynasty by the Tamil poet...

(Tamil: பரிபாடல், meaning the paripadal-metre anthology) is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the fifth of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in...

(lit. Ten Tens, sometimes spelled Pathitrupathu,) is a classical Tamil poetic work and one of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in Sangam literature...

the participation of Heifetz, the new translation retained the work's poetic form and beauty. In 2002, Heifetz and Hart were awarded the A. K. Ramanujan...