In a novel attempt, college students engrave Thirukkural on palm leaves

To beforehand and popularise Thirukkural among the younger generation, students of Valluvar College of Science and Management successful Karur engraved each 1,330 couplets written by Thiruvalluvar connected thenar leaves connected Friday, marking the World Writing Day.

As portion of the initiative, 1,330 students were chosen connected the archetypal time of the Tamil period of Thai to person grooming connected penning connected thenar leaves utilizing ezhuthani (a metallic stylus), traditionally utilized for penning past Tamil texts.

High-quality thenar leaves from well-grown palmyrah trees were collected, boiled successful blistery h2o mixed with brackish and turmeric to soften them, and past distributed to students. Each pupil cautiously engraved 1 Thirukkural couplet connected a thenar leaf, taking a maximum of 22.5 minutes to implicit the task.

“Thirukkural stands unsocial among the world’s past lit for its universality, secular credentials, and values. We instrumentality pridefulness successful engraving the couplets successful their archetypal form,” said K. Senguttuvan, analogous of the college.

S. Archana, a student, expressed her excitement astir utilizing the ezhuthani to constitute Thirukkural connected thenar leaves, saying it was a unsocial acquisition that reconnected them with Tamil’s linguistic tradition.

S. Ragavi, associated caput of the college, said the Thirukkural written connected thenar leaves would initially beryllium kept successful the assemblage room and aboriginal donated to a starring room successful Chennai for readers and researchers.