Readings From Thirukkural

Thiru Kural, the immortal didactic scripture also esteemed as Uttar Veda or Later Vedas, was composed by the ancient Tamil saint-poet Thiru Valluvar in the 2nd century A.D. it has also got the reputation of being the highest translated scripture of the world in some 75 Indian and foreign languages. Its whole-sale verse translation in Oriya was done by this author in the year 1993.

It is astonishing to find the saint-poet deal with; as many as 133 topics of primary human interest on Dharma (Piety), Arhta (Economics and A Kama (Love not just) in ten couplets under each which are as much valid today as they were in ancient times.

The reader is invited to the treated of the illuminating scripture in the pages of this book.

About the Author

The author, Shri Gananath Das, retired from the Indian Administrative Service in the year 1972. since then he has engaged himself in the study of various saint poets starting with the famous saint poet, Kabir Das, of the 15th century A.D.

On Kabir his works include Life and Philosophy of the Saint Poet in Oriya, and translation of five hundred of his couplets in English Verse, in three volumes: the first of one hundred published by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan of Bombay in 1992, the second of three hundred published by Motilal Banarasi Das of Delhi in 1991 and the third of one hundred published by Writers Workshop of Calcutta in 1992, followed by Sayings of Kabir published by the same publisher in 1993.

In 1992 he published his translation of one hundred songs of Guru Nanak Dev as 'Nanak Satak' in Oriya and 100 Love Songs of Kabir in English Verse which was published by Abhinav Publications of New Delhi.

In 1994 he published his Oriya Verse translation of the entire Thiru Kural, the immortal work of the Tamil Saint Poet Thiru Valluvar, consisting of 1330 couplets in 133 chapters.

In 1994 he published his Essays on Kabir published but the Writers Workshop of Calcutta consisting of indepth studies of the Saint Poet's sayings on as many as 22 topics.

In the meantime he has completed his "Readingss from Bhagabata", being English Verse translation of over 150 Sayings of the famous scripture originally composed by Vyasa Deva and Translated into Oriya Verse by Saint Poet Jagannath Das of Pancha Sakih fame.