Talk:Kural

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I'm skeptical about the current definition of Kural esp. on narrative and venba. Could the contributor bring any citations/justifications? Anyway, I should confirm it myslef:-) --Rrjanbiah 10:39, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I'm sure about Venpa but not too sure about narrative. I've done some elaborate study on this and have written a paper related to this:

• L BalaSundaraRaman, Ishwar S, Sanjeeth Kumar Ravindranath.

Context Free Grammar for Natural Language Constructs -- An Implementation for Venpa Class of Tamil Poetry. Tamil Internet Conference, Chennai, India, 2003.

About narrative, I don't know the exact equivalent of cheppalosai. May be, sermonising tone will be good. What do you think?

-- Sundar 11:02, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC)

Now, I remember those Venpa stuff:-) Your research paper is really nice. But, narrative is bit odd (Narrative poetry). I think, sermonising tone is better; but if I'm right, செப்புதல் means telling. Anyway, what about the following explanation:

Kural is one of the most important forms of traditional Tamil poetry.

Kural is a very short poetic form, exactly in 2 lines. The first line should consist 4 words, and the second line should consist 3 words. It should also conform to the grammar for Venpa.

Writing a kural is considered as a tough work as the grammar is very rigid. And so, nowadays, it is hard to see any contemporary kurals.

A typical example for kural is Tirukkural by Tiruvalluvar which is considered to be the ancient Tamil literature work.

--Rrjanbiah 13:54, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your appreciation of our paper. Your suggestion regarding Kural is good. I'll make suitable changes.

-- Sundar 05:14, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)

The description of kuraL as a poem of two lines of 4 and 3 "words" seems incorrect. The building block in question is a "ceer" which is not the same as a word - can a better term be substituted? Rsata 21:54, 24 February 2006 (UTC)