jjasim/naaladiyar-english-dataset

Naaladiyar in English

Naaladiyar English Translation Dataset

"நாலும் இரண்டும் சொல்லுக்கு உறுதி"

"The Quatrains (of Naaladiyar) and the Couplets (of the Thirukkural) are the best of ethical sayings" - Old Tamil Proverb

The Naaladiyar (lit. Four Hundred Quatrains) is one of the great ancient works of Tamilakam and is exemplified for its weighty comments on life, morality and thought. It belongs to a catagory of poetry which celebrates philosophic truths without sacrificing its poetic charms.

The work is arranged into three parts.

• The first part on Virtue has 13 chapters.
• The second part on Wealth has 26 chapters.
• The third part on Love has 1 chapter.

Each chapter has 10 quatrains.

This English translation has been gleaned from Project Madurai.

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This repo contains three files.

• Naaladiyar_Chapters_Eng.txt contains the English translation of all 40 chapters of the Naaladiyar.

• Naaladiyar_Eng.txt contains the English translation of all 400 Naaladiyar quatrains with each line in the file containing a quatrain. In this file individual lines in the quatrain are concatenated into one using '$' as the delimiter for convenience.