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कथामृत  ·  Kathamrita

Tamil Tradition

Thiruvalluvar's Kural Floats

The weaver of Mylapore wrote 1,330 couplets — each exactly seven words — covering every dimension of human life. When he was done he threw the manuscript into the sacred tank at Madurai and asked the scholars to judge whether it was worthy. Everything else sank. The Kural floated.…