FOREWARD

No wonder that the Kural has continued to attract the best minds of the world downs the ages. In our own time, apart from the many great savants and statesmen of Tamilnad, Gandhiji is known to have delved deep into its wisdom; Vinobaji is an acknowledged student of this classic. It is, therefore, appropriate that the Bhavan, should publish a book of selections, with translations and notes, from Kural written by Rajaji.

This volume consists of selections from the first and second books of Kural with text in Tamil and translations and notes in English. The reader will find for himself that Rajaji, who has made "the sages of our land to speak to us" in his incomparable Summaries of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and translations and interpretations of the Gita, the Upanishads and other repositories of India's ageless wisdom, has laid us all under deep debt of gratitude-even those who know Tamil-with his clear and instructive renderings and notes in English. The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is grateful to Messrs Rochouse publishers for giving it the privilege of issuing this revised edition of Rajaji's book.

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