The Great Tamil Maxims

அகர முதல எழுத்தெல்லாம், ஆதி பகவன் முதற்றே உலகு

-agara muthala eluttellam, aathi bagavan muthettre ulagu-

nothing can be understood once read, but after some scrutiny, you can find tonnes of hidden meaning in the couplets.. and that what scribbled by Thiruvalluvar; and ancient Tamil philosopher. Thiruvalluvar wrote 'Tirukural' (meaning holy couplets in Tamil) as a guieline to be followed by humans 2100 years ago. it contains 133 chapters (or known as athikaram in Tamil) and each contain ten short couplets.He wrote in the South Indian Dravidian language of Tamil and his couplets cover a gamut of topics – from the divine to the role of a husband and wife, to gambling, liquor, medicine, politics and love. the 133 chapters are dived into three main sections :

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  section 1 - Aram (virtue/noble deeds) contains 30 chapters which defines honor, good of being less fortunete and conscence.
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  section 2 - Porul (means literally 'meaning') contains 70 chapters highlighting on realities of life.
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  section 3 - Inbam (means happiness) contains 25 chapters explains pleasures in relationships.

There are few advantages and glory of reading tirukural. it has its own splendour which makes tirukural authentic from any other literature piece :  

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   Each couplet consists of four seers in the first line and three seers in the second. A seer is a single or a combination of more than one Tamil word 
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   One of the basis of Tamil Languange as ancient poetic tamil is used in every lines which resembles histroric marvel of ancient Dravidian custom.
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   Withstood many generation of kingdom/culture/ruler; 2100 years to be exact - where Islamic and British government did not make this literature piece vanish.
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   All 1330 maxims used not the word 'Tamil' in any lines which makes it is totally readable by people of different languange and culture.
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   touches all aspects of human including religion, having healthy lifestyle and basic virtues.
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   this ancient piece was translated into more than 28 languanges, which makes the most translated litrature piece in the world -- [28 languages are Assamese, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Latin, Malay, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Rajasthani, Russian, Sanskrit, Saurashtra, Sinhala, Swedish, Telugu and Urdu]