Thirukural

thirukuRaL with English Translation of Yogi Suddhanantha Bharathiar ... Page 1 of 167

Thirukkural verses in Tamil (TSCII format) along with the English Translation of Kaviyogi Maharishi Shuddhananda Bharatiar ¾¢ÕìÌÈû ÌÈðÀ¡ì¸û ¾Á¢Æ¢Öõ (¾Á¢ú¾Ã ÅÊÅò¾¢ø) ¸Å¢§Â¡¸¢ Á¸Ã¢„¢ Íò¾¡Éó¾ À¡Ã¾¢Â¡Ã¢ý ¬í¸¢Ä ¦Á¡Æ¢Â¡ì¸Óõ

Tamil EText input: Mr. K. Kalyanasundaram (Kalyan), Switzerland Proof-reading: Mr. Kandaiah Ramanitharan (Ramani), USA English Translation EText Input: Mr. A.Arasu, Kalpakkam, India Proof-reading: Mr. J.V.M.Joseph, Kalpakkam, India Our sincere thanks go to Shuddhananda Yogi Samaj, Sivaganga, India and its President Mr. R. Venkatakrishnan (Copyright holders for the works of Maharishi Suddhananda Bharatiar) for their kind permission to publish this Etext Version under the auspices of Project Madurai. This Etext file has the thirukuRaL couplets in tamil script in TSCIIencoding. So you need to have a TSCII-conformant tamil font to view the Tamil part properly. Several TSCII conformant fonts are available free for use on Macintosh , Unix and Windows (95/98/NT/3.11) platforms at the following websites:

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¾¢ÕìÌÈû Thirukkural / Holy Kural

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