The Sacred Kurral Of Tiruvalluva Nayanar

About the Book :- This rare yet valuable book is primarily intended to make classical Tamil easier to English students, while to Native students it may afford means for a more comprehensive and fruitful study of their greatest classic author, who has sung of so many topics. The Grammatical Introduction, together with the Handbook, and a careful use of the Lexicon and Concordance, aided by the English and Latin versions, will make it easy to master the great work of this very influential teacher of men. The famous work in Tamil by the famed poet-sage Thiruvaluvar. The text in Tamil is accompanied with its translation in English. The Kurral is a book of Maxims and is divided into 133 chapters with each chapter containing 10 maxims. This publication may be useful in promoting the real study of Tamil, and so help those who go to South India as officers of Government, or as missionaries, better to understand the mind of the people among whom they live and work. About the Author :- George Uglow Pope or G.U. Pope was an Anglican Christian missionary and Tamil scholar who spent 40 years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English. His popular translations included those of the Tirukkural and Thiruvasagam. He later took to teaching, running his own school in Ootacamund for while and then moving to head the Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore and after returning to England worked as a Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. A statue on the Chennai beach recognizes him for his contribution to the understanding and promotion of the Tamil language. His first work was A Catechism of Tamil Grammar (1842). His most famous work is the translation of the Tirukkural which he completed in 1st September 1886. His Sacred Kurral contains introduction, grammar, translation, notes, lexicon and concordance. It also includes the English translation of F. W. Ellis and the Latin Translation of Constanzo Beschi with 436 pages. The Title 'The Sacred Kurral Of Tiruvalluva Nayanar written/authored/edited by G. U. Pope', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121239776 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 448 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-