It is a lighthouse guiding the ships of Virtue, Wealth and Love a treasure-trove of knowledge based on reasonable, analytical, practical, scientific and worldly outlook moulded in the norms of virtue, aesthetics, kindness, hospitality, sociability, munificence, service, etc. brevity and crispness, rhythm and syntax, easy to grasp and remember. It is a literary masterpiece of verses with poetic excellence. Thirukkural is neither a Testament, nor a Scripture, or a Heavenly Dispensation it is a Treatise on Social Life, it a the embodiment of enlightened wisdom the hallmark of an ancient civilization, with a rich heritage, tradition and culture reflected in a distinctive language and diction.
