AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part-2
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Ancient Grecian writers inform us of the import of Tugi (தோகை – பீலி) from Indies; Thiruvalluvar also points out the export of the same Tugi in one of his couplets,
பீலிசெய் சாகாடும் அச்சிறும் அப்பண்டம்
சால மிகுத்துப் பெயின். (1)
Our Bharat was not wanting in thinkers like Thiruvalluvar in those days. There were Bodhayana, Apasthamba. Asvalayana, Koutilya and Parasara, besides Manu, the law giver. But the mind of these thinkers was so saturated with communal feelings called Varnashrama Dharma that they could not extricate themselves from bias. They thought and did everything in terms of caste and community. Even the author of the famous Bhagavat Gita, who devotes a separate chapter to the castes and the respective communal duties and Birthru Hari, the author of Neethi Sathagam, are not free from this mental distemper.
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