Kural: The Great Book of Tiru-Valluvar

An excellent book to read with all core values in everyone's life.

One of the best books I have read.

Good translation by CR.Definitely one of the good books on Indian philosophy by a South Indian sage.Epigrammatic format is a special attraction.

very good book easy translation

Does not contain the whole kural. only 2/3rds of the book. the format is the original tamil kural followed by the translation. As far as printing quality is concerned the tamil print is very bad and unreadable at places. english is slighty better due to the bigger font

good

Translated into at least 40 languages as of 2014, the Kural is one of the most widely translated works in the world. Edward Jewitt Robinson said that the Kural contains all things and there is nothing which it does not contain. "the Universal Veda," the Kural emphasizes on the vital principles of non-violence, vegetarianism/veganism, casteless human brotherhood, absence of desires, path of righteousness and truth, and so forth, besides covering a wide range of subjects such as moral codes of rulers, friendship, agriculture, knowledge and wisdom, sobriety, love, and domestic life. Each kural or couplet contains exactly seven words, known as cirs, with four cirs on the first line and three on the second. This includes 40 couplets on God, rain, ascetics, and virtue; 200 on domestic virtue; 140 on higher yet most fundamental virtue based on grace, benevolence and compassion; 250 on royalty; 100 on ministers of state; 220 on essential requirements of administration; 130 on morality, both positive and negative; and 250 on human love and passion. two greatest sins that Valluvar feels very strongly are ingratitude and meat-eating. Valluvar differed from Confucius in two respects. Firstly, unlike Confucius, Valluvar was also a poet. Secondly, Confucius did not deal with the subject of conjugal love, for which Valluvar devoted an entire division in his work.

knowledge in the book is beyond my capacity to rate it. THE RATING HERE IS JUST FOR THE POOR PRINT QUALITY AND PAGE QUALITY. delivery as usual was on time......