Sources & credits
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Original Tamil verse data: tk120404/thirukkural (Apache-2.0; see included license and notice). No modern commentaries from that dataset are included.
Reader portrait: original generated illustration of Thiruvalluvar, not a historical likeness.
Earlier edition photograph: Balaji Ravichandran, Thiruvalluvar statue at Marina Beach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Original photo, displayed at reduced dimensions.
Nationalized Tamil editions
These official scanned editions are available for further reading. Their commentaries have not yet been transcribed and checked for this reader.
Additional classical texts: pinned Thirukkural OKF collection, public-domain Manakkudavar and Pope text; compilation CC0. Modern paraphrases and generated tags are not imported. Download classical commentary JSON.
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