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Rh “Will be read with pleasure as affording proof of the existence of the loftiest sentiments, the purest moral rules and equal power of conception and expression. Nothing certainly in the whole compass of human language can equal the force and terseness of the sententious distiches in which the author conveys the lessons of wisdom he utters."

—Rev. Peter Percival.

“The Kural is composed in the purest Tamil. The poet throws the purity of Bunyan's English completely into the shade. No known Tamil work can even approach the purity of Kural. It is a standing rebuke to the modern Tamil. Tiruvalluvar has clearly proved the richness, melody and power of his mother tongue.”

—Rev. Dr. J. Lazarus.

"Tiruvalluvar, supposed to have been...was yet acknowledged and deified prince of Tamil Authors. The compositions that are universally admitted to be the finest in the (Tamil) language, viz., the Kural and the Chintamani, are perfectly, independent of Sanskrit and original in design as well as in execution".

—Rev. Robert Caldwell.

“Tiruvalluvar's Kural, the 1330 short sentences on the three aims of life-Dharma, Artha, Kama is one of the gems of the world literature.”

—M. Winternitz.

"Tiruvalluvar, the author of the Kural occupies the first place as a moralist among the Tamils. Indeed it is generally acknowledged, that there is no treatise equal to the Kural in any Indian language.”

—John Murdock.