"The message of Tiruvalluvar, as outlined in the Kural is a message for all humanity and at no time is such a message more needed than at the present.
"The Kural is one of the finest products of Indian culture. Its author Tiruvalluvar combined the wisdom of a statesman and law giver with the spiritual vision of a saint. His Kural is a veritable treasure house of good counsels for the house-holder, and the king as well as the man seeking after beatitude or liberation. Thus it is not only a great book of Indian but of the world literature as well.”
“Kural is everything to everybody in every age and in every clime.”
“Tiruvalluvar was a Tamil Saint. Tradition says that he was a...weaver. He is said to have lived in the first century of the Christian Era. He gave us the famous Thirukkuralholy maxims decscribed by Tamilians as the Tamil Veda. The maxims number 1330. These have been trans, lated into mapy languages.”
As all great works of literature, the ‘Kural also has left its mark on all other works of later poets. “Almost all the later poets are indebted to this work in one way or another; some have enshrined a few of Valluvar's sayings in their own verses. Some have composed works illustrating selected sayings with 'Puranic' and other stories”.
