* Kaamattupaal: Kama, dealing with virtues involved in conjugal human love (Chapters 109-133)Įach kural or couplet contains exactly seven words, known as cirs, with four cirs on the first line and three on the second. * Porutpaal: Artha, dealing with virtues with respect to the surroundings (Chapters 39-108) * Aratupaal: Dharma, dealing with virtues independent of the surroundings (Chapters 1-38) The 133 chapters are grouped into three parts, or “paal” The Kural is structured into 133 chapters, each containing 10 couplets (or kurals), for a total of 1,330 couplets. The Thirukkural, or shortly the Kural, is a couplets or Kurals consisting of 1,330 couplets, dealing with the everyday virtues of an individual.
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