திருவள்ளுவரும் திருக்குறளும்
என்ற நூல் ஆங்கிலத்தில் கா ந சு எழுதியது
ஞானபீடம் இந்த நூலை 1986 இல் வெளியிட்டுள்ளது
இந்த நூல் 2009 ஆம் ஆண்டு தேர்தல் பணியில் இருந்த போது (28/04/2009 )இராஜஸ்தான் மாநிலத்தில் மகாவீர் என்ற இடத்தில் , சமண ஆலயத்தில் வாங்கினேன்.. நல்ல ஆய்வு நூல்..
We need to have more such works, which gives critical insights into this great work.
Excerpts from the Book and Foreword…
The maxims number only 1330 but they seem to rise to any occasion you can confront it with.
Positive living? Yes. Fruitful living? Yes. Effective living? Yes. Making the most of life? Yes. Enjoying the making of wealth and the use of it? Yes.
It is a convenient handbook to which you can turn to whenever you want and derive the full benefit of it, for better immediate living. It is rarely that great moralists make great writers.
But in the case of the poet of the Kurul, it happens that he is, and has to be considered, one of the greatest of poets who have lived and enriched the world but who also have been one of the ablest moralists, preaching not at you but taking you along the right way, by right knowledge, through right action, which also happens to be the only good.
We have thus in Tamil society, 2000 years ago, noble works of art and culture, religion and ethics, operating for the benefit of mankind, ideals which are not fully appreciated by the modern world in war weariness.
In short Kural contains ideals which deserve to be spread over not only the whole of India but also over the whole world. Only by living up to these ideals of ahimsa, universal benevolence, human civilization can be saved, otherwise it will end in destruction by nations waging war with one another which would be the ominous sign of humanity committing suicide.
The Kural may guide the whole world to-wards human prosperity and peace.
From time to time, in various climes, in various languages, in various communities, appear literary works that are decidedly But the Kural is certainly more than a book by a narrow, or any way, bigotted partisan of any religion or sect;
it is as vast as love, and as wide as the seas, and as high as the heavens. That is the greatest charm of the book which remains an ancient text but as modern as a modern would like it to be.
The Kural has something to say to every man, both as poet and as wisdom, and every one born a human being can profit by it. That is the great validity of some of the noblest moral texts of the world. And the Kural is one of the noblest of the moral texts available to the world, though the greater part of the globe is still unaware of it, as it has not been presented in the world context with sufficient critical insight.
New Delhi
-Ka Naa Subramanyam
Tamil New Year Day, 1986
225 பக்கங்கள்
ரூபாய் 45/-(1986)
