Tiruvalluvar : a Tamil yogi who wrote Tirukkural (see Kural).
... supposed to have been three or four Sangams. The Sangam at the time of Tiruvalluvar was supposedly the last one. The creation of the Rural is put at AD 450-550 by Nilakanta Sastri. R. C. Majumdar limits the Sangam age between 500 BC to AD 500. P.S. Sundaram, who has translated the Rural into English couplets, says that Tiruvalluvar probably lived and wrote between the second century BC and the eighth... dialects. But one language, Sanskrit, was understood all over the great subcontinent. It is therefore not surprising that several thousand years after the Vedic Age, a saint-poet from the deep South, Tiruvalluvar, would echo all those concepts in his Kural. Full of worldly wisdom, Tirukkural is a comp re hensive manual of ethics, polity and love, expressed in pithy couplets. In it he gives a broad outline... hesitation in recommending the sacking of a corrupt officer or the compulsory retirement of the inefficient. Because the interest of the public was of paramount importance. The Tamil author Tiruvalluvar was regarded as a saint. But very little authentic information about his life and times has come down to us, although it is often affirmed that he was Page 106 a weaver and belonged ...
... wealthy farmer. For a long time no hero appeared, and the farmer asked the sages who lived on the mountain what he ought to do. "Go to Tiruvalluvar," said the sages of the mountain. So he went to visit the young poet and asked for his help. Then Tiruvalluvar took some ashes and spread them on the palm of his hand and on it wrote five sacred letters, uttered some mantras, then threw the ashes into... defend only the good, fight and undermine the evil. All wise men, like Tiruvalluvar the noble poet, know and are able to do this. And the wiser they are, the better they do it. But even little children who are not yet very wise or very strong can emulate them and thus grow in valour. This is how Avvai, the sister of Tiruvalluvar, emulated her brother. One day as she was sitting on the ground in... like that? Why was the child saved from his very birth and why did the palm-tree shelter him from the heat of the sun? Because his life was precious: this child was one day to become the noble Tiruvalluvar, the famous Tamil poet and author of the sweet verses of the Kural. Thus there are things and beings who must be protected, for they bring messages to the world. Let us be glad to have strong ...
... Kural of Tiruvalluvar are the chief representatives, and the philosophic and devotional lyrics are not the creation or meant for the appreciation of a cultivated class, but with few exceptions the expression of a popular culture. The Ramayana of Tulsidas, the songs of Ramprasad and of the Bauls, the wandering Vaishnava devotees, the poetry of Ramdas and Tukaram, the sentences of Tiruvalluvar and the... such as the religio-ethical and political poems of Ramdas in Maharashtra or the gnomic poetry, the greatest in plan, conception and force of execution ever written in this kind, of the Tamil saint, Tiruvalluvar. There is too in one or two of these languages a later erotic poetry not without considerable lyrical beauty of an entirely mundane inspiration. The same culture reigns amid many variations of form ...
... legendary story of the new-born babe, Tiruvalluvar, who is abandoned by his parents in a grove, but he thrives all the same, being amply nourished by honey-drops from the Ilupay flowers above. It was this same Tiruvalluvar who later composed the Kural, a Tamil classic, and also rid hapless Kaveripakkam of a demon who was the scourge of the countryside. Like Tiruvalluvar, it is man's privilege and the burden ...
... or rather the record of a reflection by Mr. Cousins on "Symbol and Metaphor in Art", quite the best thing in thought and style in the number: a translation by Mr. V. V. S. Aiyar of some verses of Tiruvalluvar done with grace and a fluid warmth and colour—perhaps too much fluidity and grace to Page 629 render rightly the terse and pregnant force that is supposed, and surely with justice, to ...
... Prashanto and Others of a Family Among the Not So Great Dara Cling to the One who clings to nothing; And clinging, cease to cling. Tiruvalluvar KuraL Dara was born into an aristocratic family of Hyderabad (on 24 October 1902). Hyderabad was then a princely state ruled by the Nizam. He was named Aga Sayed Ibrahim. When Aga was ...
... Is mathematics a science? Is history a science? Is geography a science? What is the difference between science and art? A detailed study of the life and work of Tiruvalluvar Daily one hour of exercises and games, etc. Class IX Science and Values The concept of matter in modern science and in yoga. The concept of life in modern science and in yoga ...
... -Is mathematics a science? -Is history a science? -Is geography a science? (d) What is the difference between science and art? 7. A detailed study of the life and work of Tiruvalluvar. 8. Daily one hour of exercises and games, etc. Class IX I. Science and Values 1. The concept of matter in modern science and yoga. 2. The concept of life in modern ...
... Tantras outline "a complete psycho-spiritual and psycho-physical science of Yoga." The great period of Tamil literature was contemporary with the classical Sanskrit age, and there is brief mention of Tiruvalluvar, Avvai, the Vaishnava and Saiva saint-singers, the great epics of Kamban and Tulsidas, and the proliferation of the Bhakti poetry including that of Nanak and the other Sikh Gurus. Of the poetry ...
... the other rich creations of classical Indian drama and poetry and romance, the Dhammapada and the Jatakas, the Panchatantra, Tulsidas, Vidyapati and Chandidas and Ramprasad, Ramdas and Tukaram, Tiruvalluvar and Kamban and the songs of Nanak and Kabir and Mirabai and the southern Shaiva saints and the Alwars,—to name only the best-known writers and most characteristic productions, though there is a ...
... did to the best of his ability till Dara’s passing away. (Paying for sins committed 300 years ago!) The hurt you cause in the forenoon self-propelled Will overtake you in the afternoon. Tiruvalluvar Kural Prashanto spent his days simply, doing his work, taking walks and telling stories if and when we needled him. Then, one fine day, he just lifted anchor and walked away, again on his ...
... Is mathematics a science? Is history a science? Is geography a science? (d) What is the difference between science and art? 7. A detailed study of the life and work of Tiruvalluvar. 8. Daily one hour of exercises and games, etc. Page 233 Class IX I. Science and Values: 1. The concept of matter in modem science and yoga. 2. The ...
... 287-8, 319, 321 Teilhard de Chardin 732 Teresa, Saint 38, 62, 129 Teresa, Mother 552 Théon, Alma 21-5 Théon, Max 21-5, 191 Thompson, Francis 28 Thoreau, H.D. 186, 485 Tiruvalluvar 485 Tilak, Lokamanya E.G. 199 Togo Mukherjee 723. Tolstoy, Leo 108, 186, 485 Truman, President Harry 488 Udar (L.M. Pinto) 278-9, 435, 493ff, 685, 691, 723, 788, 795, 817 Uma ...
... shorter time." His command over the Tamil language progressed so quickly that with Bharati's help he translated into English some pieces from Tamil literature. A few lines from the Kural of Tiruvalluvar; two pieces— Hymn of the Golden Age and Love-Mad —by Nammalwar, a poem by the Chera king and saint Kulasekhara Alwar, and three pieces by Andal. In all his literary works a double action ...
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