The statue of the Tamil saint Tiruvalluvar...... on an island just off the southern tip of India at Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu...............Thiruvalluvar (Tamil: திருவள்ளுவர்) is a celebrated Tamil poet who wrote the Thirukkural, a well known ethical work in Tamil literature. He is claimed by both the Tamils who practice Hinduism and the Tamils who practice Jainism as their own. Norman Custer considers Thiruvalluvar to be a Jain citing internal textual evidence from Thirukural.[2]
Thiruvalluvar's period (based on the Thirukkural per se) is between the second century BCE and the eighth century CE. [3]
Both Thiruvalluvar's faith and identity are disputed. His disputed identity includes a low-caste Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, crypto-Christian, high-caste Hindu, Brahmin and half-Brahmin. [4]
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