Jain Journal 1970 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 36

OCTOBER, 1970
In all probability Tirunayanarkurichi near Muttom in ancient Valluvanad was the birth place of Tiruvalluvar.
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The chieftain Valluvan one day renounced the world and entered the literary field completely. The renunciation transformed the royal personage into a spiritual thinker, a great reformer and one of the greatest philosophers that the world has known. With the expereience earned during his royal career he wrote the chapters on Love and Political economy. After completing his triple treatise on Morality, Material Prosperity and Love in 133 chapters each of ten couplets, Tiruvalluvar went to Mylapore where he was enshrined. In the south there is a place by the name of Tiruvalluva Nayanar and in Mylapore is the shrine dedicated to him. Thus he connects the south and north of Tamilnadu by his birth and death.
In short the authors of Tholkappiam and Tirukkural which are considered to be the two eyes of Tamils are the natives of the southern tip of the peninsula, the remnants of the lost continent of Kumari.