The Sacred Kurral Of Tiruvalluva Nayanar [Hardcover]

Name : The Sacred Kurral Of Tiruvalluva Nayanar [Hardcover]

Author : G. U. Pope

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121239783

Language : English

Pages : 401-500 Pages

Publish Year : 2020

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About the Book : - This rare yet valuable book is primarily intended to make classical Tamil easier to English students, while to Native students it may afford means for a more comprehensive and fruitful study of their greatest classic author, who has sung of so many topics. The Grammatical Introduction, together with the Handbook, and a careful use of the Lexicon and Concordance, aided by the English and Latin versions, will make it easy to master the great work of this very influential teacher of men. The famous work in Tamil by the famed poet-sage Thiruvaluvar. The text in Tamil is accompanied with its translation in English. The Kurral is a book of Maxims and is divided into 133 chapters with each chapter containing 10 maxims. This publication may be useful in promoting the real study of Tamil, and so help those who go to South India as officers of Government, or as missionaries, better to understand the mind of the people among whom they live and work. About the Author :- George Uglow Pope or G.U. Pope was an Anglican Christian missionary and Tamil scholar who spent 40 years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English. His popular translations included those of the Tirukkural and Thiruvasagam. He later took to teaching, running his own school in Ootacamund for while and then moving to head the Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore and after returning to Eng

Country of Origin : India