What the book says about one thing
A printed Kural is read in verse order, which is the one order that never answers the question a reader actually arrives with. Every couplet here carries two kinds of tag: what it is about, and what it does with it. Follow either.
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By subject
What the verse is about. The count is how many of the 1000 couplets carry it.
By what the verse does
Valluvar rarely states a thing twice the same way. One couplet defines, the next passes a verdict, a third asks a question and leaves it open. This is the book read as craft rather than as subject matter.
131 words appear in more than one couplet — ஆக்கம், துணை, செருக்கு — and rarely mean quite the same thing twice. Each is shown in every place it falls, with what it carries there.