Kannada has at least eight translations of the Tirukkural available as of 2014. Both prose and

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translations have been made in Kannada.

History of translations

The first Kannada translation of the Kural text was made by Rao Bahadur R. Narasimhachar around 1910, who translated select couplets into Kannada. It was published under the title ''Nitimanjari'', in which he had translated 38 chapters from the Kural, including 28 chapters from the Book of Virtue and 10 chapters from the Book of Polity. The second translation was made by

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in 1940, who published it under the title 'Kural' as part of his anthology, ''Tamil Kattu'' (Kannada rendering in verse of various Tamil classical works). Unfortunately, the entire manuscript was destroyed by white ants. The next translation was made by

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in 1955, who then translated only the first book of the text, viz., Book of Virtue, and published under the title ''Tirukkural: Dharma Bhaaga''. It was published under the auspices of the Southern Languages Book Trust. In 1960, Gundappa published a complete translated version of the text, covering all the three sections. In 1982, P. S. Srinivas, then head of the Department of Kannada at the Madurai Kamaraj University, published the entire work in prose along with the original Tamil text. The next translation was by N. Munusamy, which was published in 1985. In 2001, K. Jayaraman translated the work in prose, which was published by Bharati Publications, Mysore. In 2014, another translation of the text was completed by

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, which was published by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Chennai. The translation was part of CICT's project of translating the Kural into multiple languages including

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, Manipuri,

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and other Indian languages.

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References

Published Translations

* S. Srinivasan (Trans.). (2014). ''Tirukkural in Kannada''. Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil. xxiv, 410 pages.

History of translations

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See also

References

Published Translations

Further reading