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	Tiruvalluvar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tiruvalluvar was one of the greatest Tamil poets.
		In any case, Tamils consider Tiruvalluvar to be a holy saint and his work is often referred to as 'poyyamozhi' (பொய்யா மொழி) or the 'book that never lies'.
		Indeed, many say that Tiruvalluvar was unconcerned about whether he was a follower of the Vedas or of Mahavira, and like his book, ignored the artificial boundaries between religions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tiruvalluvar (739 words)

	Tirukural - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In any case, Tamil people consider Tiruvalluvar to be a holy saint; and his work is called poy-ā—mozhi (false-never—speech or language).
		Many say that Tiruvalluvar was not concerned whether he followed Mahavira, and that he ignored the artificial boundaries between religions.
		Tiruvalluvar's seminal moral scripture is revered by Tamils of all creeds including Hindus, Jains, and Christians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tirukural (854 words)

	BhashaIndia.com :: Tirukkural
		Tiruvalluvar was a poet, thinker and teacher, all rolled into one who lived in ancient Southern India.
		Tiruvalluvar is one of the most revered literary figures in Tamil Nadu as well as the rest of India.
		Tiruvalluvar's third book is a poetic exposition of the love between man and woman set in different dramatic situations.
	www.bhashaindia.com /Patrons/LanguageTech/Tirukkural.htm (1294 words)

	The Hindu : Entertainment Chennai / Heritage : In memory of Tiruvalluvar
		According to Nadhamuni Mudaliyar, Tiruvalluvar was a Sivayogi and blessed his disciple with Panchakshara (Namasivaya) mantra.
		Tiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural on the request of Azhaganandar, son of Aelelasingar, and other well-wishers.
		In the sanctum sanctorum, Moolavar Tiruvalluvar is in `Padmasana,' facing the east with his right hand in `Chinmudra' and the `Tirukkural Suvadi' in his left hand.
	www.hindu.com /fr/2005/01/28/stories/2005012800350300.htm (297 words)

	Tiruvalluvar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tiruvalluvar was one of the greatest Tamil (Tamil: The Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka) poets.
		The name Valluvan is ambiguous as well: it may have referred to his caste (caste: (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity) /occupation and may not have been his real name.
		In any case, Tamils (Tamils: The Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka) consider Tiruvalluvar to be a holy saint and his work is often referred to as 'poyyamozhi' or the 'book that never lies'.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/tiruvalluvar (555 words)

	Tiruvalluvar
		Tiruvalluvar wrote in the Dravidian language of southern India, an older tongue than the Aryan languages of the north.
		Tiruvalluvar is aware that poverty can be utterly destructive and that virtue without some wealth to sustain it is rarely possible.
		As for learning, while Tiruvalluvar praises it, he emphasizes that it is something that is useless unless passed on to others.
	www.humanistictexts.org /tiruvalluvar.htm (2058 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Very little is known conclusively about the life of Tiruvalluvar (See Tamil people#Fame-free culture for further reading).
		Words from a wise old South Indian sage, Tiruvalluvar, who taught us about good friends, bad habits, family, God, business, law, spies, love, hate and all that is human in the loft verses of his 2,200...
		Nobody seems to know for sure when Tiruvalluvar was born and scholars think it might have been in Madras in southern India.
	tiruvalluvar.iqexpand.com (686 words)

	Archbishop Arulappa Makes History
		Tiruvalluvar is known to modern generations through his immortal literature.
		For this purpose, it is assumed that Tiruvalluvar was born exactly 2018 years ago, i.e.
		As if establishing a nexus between St. Thomas and Tiruvalluvar were not enough, John Ganesh also informed the archbishop that he could bring evidence that the three wise men from the East who prophesied the birth of Christ were none other than the epic Hindu sages, Vasistha, Viswamithra and Agasthya.
	hamsa.org /arulappa.htm (2153 words)

	Tirukkural
		Tiruvalluvar, or Valluvar as he was popularly known, was clearly familiar with all the great religions of his time.
		Tiruvalluvar was one of the greatest social philosophers of the ancient world.
		Tiruvalluvar was married to Vasuki, who was a chaste and pious woman.
	www.hinduism.co.za /tirukkur.htm (12231 words)

	tiruvalluvar
		The Holy Kural was written by a weaver, Tiruvalluvar, who lived with his wife, Vasuki, in what is today a part of Madras in South India in the st century before the birth of Christ.
		It is known that his wife was the perfect example of devotion and obedience to her husband, and several stories are told depicting the harmony in their mar- riage.
		This was Tiruvalluvar's only work, and though it is relatively short, it was sufficient to bring renown to a humble weaver, making him a venerated sage and lawgiver of the Tamil Dravidian people.
	hssworld.org /homepage/html/boudhik/ekatmata_stotra/tiruvalluvar.html (461 words)

	Hinduism Today \| May/Jun 2000
		The 133-foot statue of Saint Tiruvalluvar inaugurated that evening by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Dr. Muthu Karunanidhi is a monument not to political freedom or economic opportunity, but to righteous living and spiritual realization.
		Tiruvalluvar was author of the Tirukural ("Holy Couplets"), a 2,200-year-old South Indian Tamil classic on ethical living.
		The Tiruvalluvar statue itself is 95 feet tall, while the pedestal is 38 feet, thus making the total height 133 feet--equal to the number of chapters in the Tirukural.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/2000/5-6/2000-5-08.shtml (1248 words)

	300BCE
		In this way, he shows how different viewpoints on historical events can emerge and how skepticism might be required when people in power describe their accomplishments and motives.
		Tiruvalluvar (First Century BCE) was a Tamil poet believed to have been born in Madras (now called Chennai) in south eastern India.
		Tiruvalluvar also covers such things as gambling, espionage, medicine, folly and military forts.
	www.humanistictexts.org /200bce-200ce.htm (862 words)

	Tiruvalluvar Dictionary
		Tiruvalluvar Dictionary is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		A treasury of Hindu ethical insight and a literary masterpiece of the Tamil language, written by Saiva Saint Tiruvalluvar (ca 200 bce) near present-day Chennai.
		Moksha comes through the fulfillment of dharma, artha and kama (known in Tamil as aram, porul and inbam, and explained by Tiruvalluvar in Tirukural) in the current or past lives, so that one is no longer attached to worldly joys or sorrows.
	www.experiencefestival.com /tiruvalluvar_dictionary (726 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Dec 1993
		Tiruvalluvar's gaze from Minor Rock at Cape Comarin will take in the entirety of Mother India, from the Kanya Kumari temple right up to the Himalayas, blessing the land.
		A statue of Tiruvalluvar at this auspicious place was either proposed or endorsed in the 1970's by Eknath Ranade, who spearheaded the building of the Vivekananda Rock Memorial.
		In accordance with tradition, Sthapati explained, the face length of the statue is taken as the unit of "spatial rhythm." The whole body from foot to crown is nine times the face length, a measure called nava tala.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1993/12/1993-12-03.shtml (1636 words)

	Tiruvalluvar -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Of these the Tirukkural (“Sacred Couplets”), ascribed to Tiruvalluvar, is the most celebrated.
		Its 1,330 hemistichs (half lines of verse) are probably the final distillation of different periods.
		It is usually attributed to the poet Tiruvalluvar, who is thought to have lived in India in the 6th century, though some scholars assign an earlier date (1st century BC).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9104922?tocId=9104922 (240 words)

	Tirukkural — A wealth of wisdom - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tiruvalluvar wrote about a high degree of civilisation nearly 2000 years ago and his tenets are applicable even today
		Tiruvalluvar also stressed the need for bringing both thought and passion to our governance, in order to walk the path of honour and courage.
		Though it cannot be said of all our present rulers that they possess the characteristics envisaged by Tiruvalluvar, one can say with confidence that the Finance Minister’s Budget proposals clearly reflect his sincere and bold attempts to adhere to these prescriptions and take the country along the path of growth, with stability and equity.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/mar142005/edst.asp (745 words)

	The Holy Kural - Saint Tiruvalluvar - Background History
		To properly understand his perspective on a subject, each of the ten couplets must be read, for they are like facets of a gem - all reflecting the light of his understanding slightly differently and adding to the richness of his comprehension.
		In not speaking of the fourth and final objective of human existence, moksha or spiritual liberation, Saint Tiruvalluvar was able to reach out with his message of goodness and touch the lives of many generations.
		Certainly he knew that in speaking of virtue and love he was leading the soul to the liberation which he perhaps held too sacred, or too advanced, to openly discuss.
	www.mountainman.com.au /kural/kural-bg.htm (1904 words)

	Satguru Speaks on: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukural Ch 13-14, synopsis written in prose
		In andquot;Possession of Self-Controlandquot; Tiruvalluvar compares the restraint of the five senses to a tortoise withdrawing five limbs into its shell and says that the gains of doing this for one life will last for seven.
		Tiruvalluvar lists them as placing one among the Gods and conferring the esteem of wise men.
		Tiruvalluvar compares a priest's forgetting the Vedas to his falling from virtue.
	www.himalayanacademy.com /audio/inspiredtalks/bodhinatha/2005/bd_2005-07-07_kural-chapters-13-14.shtml (586 words)

	Tiruvalluvar : Poems and Biography
		Ascribing Tiruvalluvar to the seventh century is little more than a guess.
		By tradition, Tiruvalluvar is said to have been born in Madras in southern India.
		Like Kabir centuries later in the north, Tiruvalluvar is popularly said to have been a weaver.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /T/Tiruvalluvar (234 words)

	Quotations from Tiruvalluvar TIRUVALLUVAR famous people. quote quotes
		The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XXXI.10 (1931).
		The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XVI.3 (1931).
		The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XLI.3 (1931).
	www.poemhunter.com /quotations/famous.asp?people=Tiruvalluvar (446 words)

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		It seemed appropriate to us today that Saint Tiruvalluvar is seated, composing his scripture on the archaic ola leaves with a sharpened stylus.
		In the Holy Kural Saint Tiruvalluvar spoke in depth on the first three, but did not discuss moksha or enlightenment, whereas Saint Tirumular's Tirumantiram is dedicated almost entirely to the means and the nature of liberation.
		It is known that his wife was the perfect example of devotion and obedience to her husband, and several stories are told depicting the harmony in their marriage.
	sanskrit.gde.to /all_txt/kural1.txt (24024 words)

	Tiruvalluvar -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Little is known about the life of Tiruvalluvar except that he is believed to have lived in Mylapore (now part of Chennai [formerly Madras], Tamil Nadu, India) with his wife, Vasuki.
		Tiruvalluvar's couplets in the Tirukkural are highly aphoristic: “Adversity is nothing sinful, but / laziness is a disgrace”; “Wine cheers only when it is quaffed, but love / intoxicates at mere sight.” Despite Tiruvalluvar's reasonable tone, many of his ideas were revolutionary.
		He dismissed the caste system: “One is not great because of one's birth in a noble family; one is not low because of one's low birth.” The poet maintained that goodness is its own reward and should not be regarded as a mere means to a comfortable afterlife.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9104922 (406 words)

	Thirukkural - திருக்குறள் - One of the ...
		tirukkuRaL of tiruvaLLuvar - (1330 couplets in Tamil)
		And yet he is one of those seers whose message is intended not merely for their own age or country but for all time and for all mankind...
		Tiruvalluvar has given to the world a work to which, in perfection of form, profundity of thought, nobleness of sentiment, and earnestness of moral purpose, very few books outside the grand scriptures of humanity can at all be compared.
	www.tamilnation.org /literature/kural (1318 words)

	Archbishop Arulappa Makes History
		Though Tiruvalluvar and St. Thomas, one of Jesus Christ's twelve disciples, had lived in different periods, he wanted me to unearth evidence to the effect that the two great personages had indeed met and that St. Thomas had converted Tiruvalluvar to Christianity and baptized him.
		The writer had attempted to distort and misinterpret the Shaiva Siddhanta to suit his conclusions that all these works emanated from the preachings of St. Thomas who is said to have visited India in the first century A.D. It was given to the Dharmapuram Math to issue a refutation.
		Tamil and Shaiva scholar M.P. Somasundaram, who made the opening speech, deplored that in independent India freedom and rights were being misused to such an extent that books denigrating the ancient religion of the land were allowed to be written.
	hamsa.org /StThomas_Chapt_2.htm (5284 words)

	Tamil Siddhas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His tirukkuraL, which has been translated into numerous world languages, consists of 1330 couplets, ten to a chapter, organized in three parts -- to cover the first three of the four aspects of human life: dharma (moral conduct), artha (gaining of material wealth), kAma (enjoyment of worldly pleasures), leaving out moksha (liberation).
		tiruvaLLuvar is proof that universalism, a hallmark of the Tamil Siddhas, began much earlier than tirumUlar.
		Many examples exist, such as tiruvaLLuvar, tirumUlar, tAyumAnavar (who says “I have researched all religions of the world; they all end in the very same silence”), and most recently, vaLLalAr rAmalinga aDikaL.
	www.fireflysway.com /id16.htm (1958 words)

	The Tirukural in Modern South India
		While America's Statue of Liberty is a metal monument to political freedom and social promise, Tiruvalluvar stands as a stone statement of political wisdom, social duty and the spiritual promise of dharma.
		Tirukural memorization contests are conducted in schools, with hundreds of thousands of students vying to memorize the most, with public recitations and big awards ceremonies each year.
		Even in the marketplace you find the weaver's wisdom, on posters in store windows, in institutional literature, on the sides of the buses, and there are buses here as nowhere in the world.
	www.himalayanacademy.com /resources/books/weaver/i_four.htm (719 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Aug 1999
		Many years ago when I was first in Sri Lanka--that was in 1949--I made a vow to bring together the best of the East and the best of the West.
		In his work, Tiruvalluvar chose a topic--such as children, friendship or avoidance of anger--and gave us ten different couplets on the one subject, each reflecting the light of his understanding slightly differently, and the richness of his comprehension.
		One of the hallmarks of Saint Tiruvalluvar's genius was his ability to deftly define and subtly delineate Sanatana Dharma, the Eternal Spiritual Path, to all men equally, never limiting his audience to a sectarian view.
	www.hinduismtoday.org /archives/1999/8/1999-8-04.shtml (1379 words)

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