Topic started by Kathir on Tue Jan 25 11:34:06 .
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Hi ,
Tamilians are following Thiruvalluvar Year. This year is 2030. My questions are
1. is the year we are following correct ?
2. We know that Ovaiyaar mentioned about Thirukkural. If it is true then what was Ovaiyar period?

Responses:

• From: N.V.K. Ashraf (@ ) on: Mon Aug 7 02:28:48
  
  Dear friend,
  There is a great deal of controversy about valluvar's birth period. His period is perhaps sometime between 2 B.C. to 600 AD!!!
  Apparently there were two Auvaiyars!!!
  Sorry for being not able to provide more information. There is a page on the net which talks about this in detail. Perhaps you know about it.
  
  
• From: Yaer (@ ras3-p103.nt.netvision.net.il) on: Thu Sep 21 02:10:11
  
  Could anyone please give me information about "valluvar" - Or if there is a site - could they note it down for me?
  I am writing a Seminar paper on Narayan's "Painter of Signs" and the name "valluvar" is mentioned as one of the ancient masters - I have no idea who he is - so could someone please help me out? Thanks!
  
  
• From: N.V.K. Ashrafq (@ 202.9.175.244) on: Sun Oct 15 23:19:41 EDT 2000
  
  You said "I have no idea who he is...." which is indeed surprising to me! Valluvar (or Thiruvalluvar) wrote his famous work Thirukkural sometime during 2nd AD (the most agreeable period). The period 31 B.C. is more a sort of generally agreed upon dating by scholars of Tamil Cangam, Madurai, India. Of course there is NO historical basis for this conclusion.
  Just use any search engine (google or yahoo) and feed in Thiruvalluvar or Tiruvalluvar, you will get lot of links.
  I am currently working on an interesting topic "Mathematical Miracle in Kural" parts of which will soon appear in one of the Tamil sites by Jan 2001.
  
  Ashraf, NVK
  
  
• From: Mr. Mont Blanc, the simple Iceman from mountainous Alps (@ dhcp-203-55.tulane.edu) on: Mon Oct 16 02:51:37 EDT 2000
  
  Yaer,
  I did not follow this thread for some time:-(
  hope I am not late and the following sites may be helpful to you:-
  http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jan/29thir.htm
  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/thkrl.html
  http://www.ibiblio.org/chamu/kural/
  http://www.coimbatore.net/kural/ku_1.html
  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8357/kintro.html
  
  
• From: Vijay Tharma (@ 12.47.72.4) on: Mon Oct 16 11:49:40 EDT 2000
  
  Lately been seing, many pages doesnt get updated on the main 'http://www.forumhub.com/tnhistory' list, when hubbers send their post...wonder why??
  
  Infact, I too had post some links and writting on some of the older post, yet they dont get updated on the TNhistory list, why??
  Even sending m,ail to the administrator, doesnt seem to work ;-((
  
  
• From: Lila (@ on-tor-blr-a58-03-855.look.ca) on: Sat Mar 1 09:08:58
  
  Is there any website that actually is dedicated to ovaiyaar and what she had done in her life? I really need to know! If ur a good organization then u must have atleat one web dedicated to the famous poets of Tamil! There is none out there!
  Thanks
  
  

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