AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 41
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Next comes the second part entitled as பொருட்பால் (Porutpal) which deals with the political, economic and social working of the human society, which ensures the proper attainment of earthly pleasure, which, in turn, leads human souls to the everlasting life of infinite pleasure. peace and plenty. No nationalism or racialism’ ever existed in the period of Thiruvalluvar and he therefore took the human society as a whole and its mundane life into consideration.
We already saw in the first part that the family which is the unit of the society was headed by the husband and moved with the other units of the society as per the rules of conduct prescribed for the household life. In like manner the entire society has to be headed and led by an individual who is capable of looking after each and every unit of the Society. He was named as monarch or king and under his governance, the society was brought to function. So monarchy was the rule of the day of Thiruvalluvar. Here, Valluvar has dealt with in 70 chapters this aspect of human life i.e. the kingship and the government. The government is divided into six departments such as
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