The actual meaning of Thirukural in english is “Hallowed Couplet” Kural is the type of poetic meter, which belongs to the poetic meter family Venba. Each couplet consists of 2 lines, the first line contains 4 words and second line contains 3 words, so totally 7 words. These 3 divisions consists of 133 topics (Athigaram in Tamil) each topic consists of 10 Kural (Poem) / Couplet, as totally 1330 couplets. Thirrukural topics and division Thirukkural has 3 major divisions referred to as Aram (Virtue), Porul (Wealth of Government, Society), Kamam (Love). “Thiru” suggests that Honorable in Tamil, “Kural” suggests that Short and Precise. Thirukural is the combination of two words “Thiru + Kural”. It talks about morality and virtues of an individual who can be anyone from poor to richest man, citizens to king of the nation, which is immortal and applicable to all ages.
What is Thirukkural? Thirukkural is an ancient classic tamil literature written by the greatest poet Thiruvalluvar over 2000 years ago.
