INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 84
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The section Kalaviyal is dealt with in seven chapters. As Valluvar wants to explain the gradual psychological development of love in the minds of two youths, male and female, destined to become partners of life as husband and wife, its every stage in the developing process is to be inferred by the reader; so he adopts a dramatic method by introducing the lad and the maiden as hero and heroine.
In the first meeting, they look at each other and by her captivating links, the lad is conquered and his soul and mind are subdued- He feels that he is physically powerless on account of the piercing look cast at him by the maiden and exclaims that his physical prowess which created terror in the mind of his foes when met in the battle, had broken down completely at the very sight of the bright forehead of the young lady, and at the end he concludes that love has the peculiar quality of evoking pleasure by mere sight unlike drinks which intoxicate people only when they are taken in.
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