tirukkuRaL - translations in other languages and on the Net

Posted By kalyan on April 18, 2008

THIRUKURAL of THIRUVALLUVAR is the most popular, most widely esteemed Tamil Classic of all times. It is a tamil book on philosophy and life in general, written by Thiruvalluvar, a sage and philosopher, about 2000 years ago. Its appeal is universal. It is the only tamil literary work (possibly after the Bible) that has been translated many times in almost all languages of the world.

thirukural on the Internet
The entire work of 1330 couplets is available on internet in Tamil Script form at the following sites:

Project Madurai works at INFITT
in bilingual TSCII encoding format
Project Madurai works
in mylai tamil font format:
Tamil Literature Online
Project Madurai
in inaimathi/anjal tamil font format:
in transliterated/romanized text format:
http://dcwww.epfl.ch/icp/ICP-2/KK/tamil4.html
in the form of graphic image files/browser:
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~siddhart/thirukkural
english translation of the Himalayan academy
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~janahan/kural.html

Commentaries (urai) in tamil

S. Annamalai
thirukural cinthani, Cennai: Vanathi patipakam, 1987
Ka. Appathurai (uraiyaciriyar)
thirukural manivilakka urai, Cennai: alamelu nilaiyam, 1967
Mylai Seeni Govindarasanar
Tirukkural natakam, Cennai: Star Piracuram, 1964.
Kokila Thangasami
Kural pullankuzhal utukiratu, Koyamputtur : Vijaya Patippakam ; distribution in Cennai : Narmata Patippakam, 1987.

Translations, Commentaries in English

Aiyar, V.V.S,
Kural_: Maxims of thiruvalluvar, 4th ed, Madras, 1961
Balasubramanian, K.M,
Thirukural of thiruvalluvar, Madras, 1962
Yogi Suddanantha Bharathi:
Thirukural with english couplets, Madras, 1968
Yogi Suddanantha Bharathi,
thirukural couplets with clear prose rendering, Madras, 1970
Chakravarthi, A,
thirukural in english with commentary, Madras, 1953
Karunanidhi, K / K. Chellappan:
Kural-portraits : Dr. Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi’s Kuralovium , a translation from Tamil by K. Chellappan., Annamalainagar : Annamalai University, 1989-
Drew, H.W.,
The kural of thiruvalluvar with commentary of Parimelazhakar, Madras, 1840
Drew, H.W. and Lazarus, J.,
Thirukural (in verses), Reprint, Madras, 1956
Diaz, S.M
Aphorisms of Valluvar : commentary and comparative study
Madras : International Society for the Investigation of Ancient Civilizations, 1982.
Ellis, F.W.,
thirukural on virtue (in verse) with commentary, 1812, reprint Madras 1955
Gajapathy Nayagar, A,
The rosary of gems of thirukkural, Madras, 1969
Kasturi Srinivasan,
Thirukural: an ancient tamil classic (in couplets), Bombay, 1969
K.C. Kamaliah
Preface in the Kural : a comparative study of the first forty couplets of the Kural; with English renderings of G. U. Pope …[et al.] and their commentaries and also the commentaries of.., Madras : M. Seshachalam, 1973.
Mathavaiyah, A,
Kural in English with commentary in Tamil, Madras, 1925
Michael, S.M.,
The sacred aphorisms of thiruvalluvar (in verse), Nagarcoil, 1928
Muthuswamy, P,
Thirukural in english, Madurai, 1965
Parameswaran Aiyar, T.V.,
108 gems from the sacred Kural, Kottayam, 1928
Parameswaran Pillai, V.K.
, kural, Madras
Pope, G.U,
A collection of the english translation of thirukural, Madras, 1959
Popely, H.A.,
The sacred Kural (selections in verses), Calcutta, 1951
Raja, P,
thirukural (in verses), Kumbakonam, 1950
Rajagopalachari, C,
kural, the great book of thiruvalluvar, Madras, 1937, 3rd ed, 1973
Ramachandra Dikshithar, V.R.,
thirukural in english with roman translation, Madras, 1949
Ranganatha Muthaliar, A:
thirukural moolamum uraiyum with english translation, Madras, 1933
Thangaswami, T.D,
thirukural (selections in verse), Madras, 1954
Thirunavukarasu, Mrs, T.,
Kural a selection of 366 verses (a gem for each day), Poona, 1916
Vadivel chettiar, K,
kural in english with tamil text and parimelazhakar commentary,(3parts), Madurai, 1972-1980
Vanmikinathan, G,
the thirukural - a unique guide to moral, material and spiritual prosperity, trichy, 1969

thirukural translations in languages of India/World
The following is a list of translations/commentaries of the tamil literary classic THIRUKURAL - taken out from
the Encyclopaedia of Tamil Literature, vol. 1,
Inst. of Asian Studies, Thiruvanmayur, Tamilnadu, India.

Nalini Mohan, Sanyal, thirukural, Calcutta, 1939
Sastri, E.C., thirukural, Calcutta, 1974

Myo Thant, U, thirukkural, Rangoon

Chi Eng Hsi, thirukkural, Hongkong, 1967

Zvelebil, Kamil V, Thirukural (selections), Prague, 1952-1954

Kat, D, Thirukural (selections), Netherlands, 1964

Berwick, S.L, Na. Thirukkurala, Fiji, 1964

Aalto, Pentit, Kural - the ancient tamil classic, Finland, 1972

Ariel, M, kural de thiruvalluvar (traduits du tamoul), Paris, 1848
Barrigue de, Fontaineu, G, le livre de l’amour de thiruvalluva, Paris, 1889
Danielou, Alain, thiruvallouvar kural, Pondicherry, 1942
Jacolliot, Louis, kural de thiruvalluvar, selections, Paris, 1767
Lamairesse, M, thirukural in french, Pondicherry, 1867

Albrecht, Fenz and K. Lalithambal: thirukural von thiruvalluvar aus dem Tamil, Madurai, 1977
Cammera, A.F, thirukural waith german translation, Leipzig, 1803
Graul, Karl, der kural des thiruvalluvar, London, 1854
Graul, Karl, der tamu lische gnomes dichtar thiruvalluvar, Leipzig, 1865
Rickert, Friederich, thirukural, selections, Berlin, 1847
William and Norgate, Der kural des thiruvalluvar, 2nd ed, London, 1866

Kalani, Kandilal, L, thirukural in Gujarathi, Bombay, 1971

Sankar Raju Naidu, S, thirukural in Hindi, Madras, 1958
Seshadri, K, thirukural in Hindi, Lucknow, 1982
Govindaraj Jain, Kural in verse, first two parts, New delhi, 1942
Jain, B.D, thirukural, thirupananthal, 1961
Khenand Rakar, thirukural, parts 1 and 2, Ajmer, 1924
Rajan Pillai, thirukural, Lucknow, 1976
Venkatakrishnan, M.G, thirukural, Trichy, 1964

Gundappa, L, thirukural (3 parts), Madras, 1960
Gundappa, L, thirukural dharma bhaga, Bangalore, 1955
Srinivas, P.S, thirukural with original couplets and translations in Kannada, Madurai, 1982
Srikanthaiah, B.M, Kural (selections in verses), bangalore, 1940

Graul, Charles, Kural of thiruvalluvar, Tranquebar, 1866
Veeramamunivar, thirukural (Books I and II), London, 1930

Ismail, Hussein: thirukural sastera kalasik tamil yang, Kuala Lumpur, 1967
Ramily Bin Thakir thirukural (in verses), Kuala Lumpur, 1964

Azhakathu Kurup, thirukural in verses, Trivandrum, 1875
Balakrishna Nair, G, Kural waith commentary, Part I, Trivandrum, 1963
Chellan Nadar, K, thirukural tharmanaskantam, Parassala, 1962
Damodaran Pillai,P, thirukural manikal, Trivandrum, 1951
Gopalakurup, Vennikulam, thirukural (first 2 parts in verse), Kottayam, 1960
Govinda Pillai, A, thirukural, Trivandrum

Kishrod, Dash Ch, thirukuralu-in oriya language, Sampalbur, 1985

Ram Murti Sharma, thirukural dhamma granth of the tamils, Chandigarh, 1983

Umadevi, Wandy Dynowskiev, thiruvalluvar kural, Madras, 1958

Kamala Gurg, thirukural needhi sastra, Jaipur, 1982

Glazov, J.J and Krishnamurthi, A, thirukural, a book on virtu, politics and love, Moscow, 1963
Glazov, J.J, thirukural in couplets with illustrations, Moscow, 1974

Srirama Desikan, S.N, thirukural in sanskrit slokas, Madras, 1961, 1968

Ram, S.S, Saurastra thirukural payiram - pitika pragaranam, Madurai, 1980

De Silva, Charles, Sirigiya (thirukural in sinhalese), Colombo, 1964
Sissigamy Govokgada, M, thirukural, Colombo, 1961

Frykholm Ingya, thirukural, Uddavalla, 1971

Jagannatha Sastri, Mudiganthi, thiruvalluva sookthalu, West Godavari, 1952
Lakshminarayana Sastri, Kural, chittoor, 1906

Kohan, Muhamad Yusuf, Kural in Urdu and Arabic, Madras, 1976
Surawathi Hasarat, Kural in Urdu, New Delhi, 1966

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