Together they encompass a vast range of personal and cosmic experience stretching from politics to hospitality, friendship, and greed. Likely composed between the 3rd and 5th centuries CE, each chapter of the Kural consists of ten short verses, or kurals, on a single theme, arranged in turn into three main sections: ethics at home, wealth in the world, and love in its many complexities. Ramakoti to bring English readers closer than ever to the brilliant inner and outer music of the original. This new translation by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma draws on two decades of study under the Tamil scholar Dr. But the Kural has long been underserved by translators, who tend to sacrifice its poetry for what they see as its ideas.
One of the masterpieces of world literature, Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural has been known in equal measure for the beauty of its poetry and for its practical philosophy: its discussions of ethics and the life well-lived.
