Kural

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Kural is the common short name for the Tirukkural, a classic Tamil text of concise couplets on ethics, governance, and love.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kural canonical 3

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf TamilLiteraryWork
didacticPoem
literaryWork
author Thiruvalluvar
surface form: Valluvar
book1Theme ethics
book1Title Aram
book2Theme governance
statecraft
book2Title Porul
book3Theme love
book3Title Inbam
countryOfOrigin India
culturalSignificance classicOfTamilLiterature
cornerstoneOfTamilCulture
ethicalOrientation compassion
justice
nonViolence
truthfulness
genre didacticLiterature
ethicalLiterature
secularLiterature
hasPart chapters
hasShortName Kural self-linksurface differs
hasShortNameFor Tirukkural
honorificTitle TamilVeda
influence SouthAsianEthicalThought
language Tamil
meter KuralVenba
numberOfChapters 133
numberOfVerses 1330
primaryTheme moralPhilosophy
practicalWisdom
socialEthics
region Tamilakam
religiousContext influencedByJainAndHinduThought
religiousOrientation largelySecular
structure threeBooks
style conciseAphoristicCouplets
subjectMatter economics
familyLife
loveAndRelationships
personalEthics
politics
timePeriod ancientTamilLiterature
translatedInto English
multipleWorldLanguages
verseForm couplet
versesPerChapter 10

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tirukkural alsoKnownAs Kural
Thiruvalluvar notableWork Kural
Kural hasShortName Kural self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Tirukkural