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| | About THIRUKKURAL |
 | | The KURAL, on the other hand all the time stays at the level of general principles, i.e., what may be called a mandatory ethics. |
 | | KURAL means 'anything short', and is properly the name of the couplet, as being the shortest species of stanza in the Tamil language. |
 | | In its own land, the KURAL owes its popularity as much to the beauty of its versification as to its morality, but it is in its breadth of view and its speaking that to the heart of men, must make it a favourite work with the world at large. |
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