PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL (ROCHOUSE) EDITION

The Second Book of Kural consists of seventy chapters dealing-with policy in worldly alffairs including state-craft, full of interest for the scholar and the historian. The chapters are not addressed only to princes and those around them. They contain principles of conduct that should guide all persons engaged in secular affairs. About the year 1935 1 made selections from the Second Book of Kural and published them with translation and notes. My book attracted much more attention than I had hoped for.

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