तिरुक्कुरळ् (सन्त तिरुवल्लुवर - तमिल वेद / उत्तरवेद: धर्म, अर्थ एवं काम सविस्तार हिन्दी भाषान्तर)

FOREWORD
ONE of the most outstanding of the Tamil classics
is the Kural. The Kural contains the maxims of
the Saint Tiruvalluvar, who is said to have been one of
the greatest of poets and philosophers who lived about
the 1st Century A.D. The message of Tiruvalluvar, as
outlined in Kural, is a message for all humanity and
at no time is such a message more needed than at
present. The excellence of this work has been
appreciated by great scholars of all lands and the Kural
has been translated into many languages, outstanding of
which are Latin, German, English and French.
Mr. Shankar Raju Naidu, Head of the Department
of Hindi in the University of Madras, deserves the
thanks of the public for having translated from the
original Tamil this classic into Hindi. It is unfortunate
that, while the treasures of the ancient Tamil classics
are better known and better appreciated by scholars in
western lands, very little attention has been paid to such
works by scholars in other parts of India. It is to be
hoped that this work, produced by one who is a good
scholar both in Tamil and Hindi, will be appreciated by
all scholars.
$\left.\begin{aligned} &UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS,
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Vice-Chancellor.