page_title: Impact of Tirukkural
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hierarchical_section_title: Impact of Tirukkural / M
caption_attribution_description: English: K. M. Munshi
context_page_description: The Tirukkural, 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 the everyday virtues of an individual. Authored by Valluvar between the third and first centuries BCE, it is considered one of the greatest works ever written on ethics and morality and is praised for its universality and non-denominational nature.
  The Kural is considered chef d'oeuvre of both Indian and world literature. The universality of the work is expressed by the various other names by which the text is given by, such as Tamiḻ maṟai, Poyyāmoḻi, Vāyurai vāḻttu, Ulaga pothumaṟai, and Deiva nūl. The Kural has been praised for its veracity over the millennia by great intellects around the globe.
caption: K. M. Munshi
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