Critical Studies in Kural by M S Purnalingam Pillai first published in 1929. The name " Thiruvalluvar " means " the great man of the Valluva community " and the title " Kural " signifies the metre of the poem. Both the author and his work have borne no proper or distinctive names. Nor is anything reliable known either of his parentage, or of his career. But the work exists or is extant as a whole, unadulterated by schismatic and unimpaired or untampered...