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{{Translation sidebar}}As of 2024, [[Fijian language|Fijian]] had at least two translations available of the [[Tirukkural]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Pallu | first1 = Nelza Mara | last2 = Mohanty | first2 = Panchanan | last3 = Durga | first3 = Shiva | author-link = | title = Thirukkural Translations: A Sacred Text From the Town of Peacocks—Mayilâpûr India | journal = International Journal of Development Research | volume = 13 | issue = 5 | pages = 62551–62553 | date = May 2023 | url = https://www.journalijdr.com/sites/default/files/issue-pdf/26323.pdf | jstor = | issn = 2230-9926 | doi = 10.37118/ijdr.26323.05.2023 | doi-broken-date = 12 July 2025 | access-date = 18 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="ValaiTamilPub"/>

==History of translations==
There are at least two translations known of the Kural text in the Fijian language. The first Fijian translation of the Kural was made by Samuel L. Berwick who translated it in 1964. [[Swami Rudrananda]], who established the [[Ramakrishna Mission]] in Fiji in 1953, requested Berwick, then editor of the Fijian section of his newspaper ''Pacific Review'' (''Vakalewa ni Pasifika'') published from [[Nadi, Fiji|Nadi]], to work on the translation in 1962 to mark the birth centenary of [[Swami Vivekananda]]. It was published in [[Nadi]], [[Fiji]] under the title ''Na Tirukurala''.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Sanjeevi
| first = N.
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| title = ''Bibliography on Tirukkural''. ''In'' First All India Tirukkural Seminar Papers
| publisher = University of Madras
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| date = 1973
| location = Chennai
| pages = 139
| language =
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| jfm = }}</ref><ref name="Polilan2019">{{cite book |editor1= Polilan|editor2=K. Gunathogai|editor3=Lena Kumar|editor4=Tagadur Sampath|editor5=Mutthamizh|editor6=G. Picchai Vallinayagam|editor7=D. Anbunidhi|editor8=K. V. Neduncheraladhan|title=Tiruvalluvar 2050 |url= |year=2019 |edition=1|publisher=Periyar Enthusiasts Group |location=Chennai|access-date= |language=Tamil|page=686|isbn= }}</ref> This has long been out of print and is now said to be available only in National Archives of Fiji.<ref name="IndWeekend"/>

The second one was by the Irish-English linguist [[Paul Geraghty]], based at the [[University of the South Pacific]] in [[Suva]], Fiji.<ref name="IndWeekend">{{cite news
| last = Dev Nadkarni and Padmini Gaunder
| title = And Now, Thirukkural in Fijian
| newspaper = The Indian Weekender
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| date = 10 July 2009
| url = https://www.indianweekender.co.nz/Pages/ArticleDetails/14/273/Fiji/And-now-Thirukkural-in-Fijian#google_vignette
| access-date = 20 November 2023}}</ref> Not knowing Tamil, he made the Fijian translation from English and French translations of the Kural text in two years.<ref name="IndWeekend"/> It was published under the title ''Tirukurali Na sere tabu'' in 2008,<ref name="ValaiTamilPub">{{cite book|last1=Parthasarathy|first1=Sa.|last2=Ashraf|first2=N.V.K.|last3=Rajendiran|first3=C.|last4=Thangavelu|first4=Elangovan|last5=Duraisamy|first5=Senthilselvan|last6=Selvan|first6=Ajey Kumar|title=Thirukkural Translations in World Languages|year=2023|publisher=ValaiTamil Publications|location= Chennai}}</ref>{{Rp|pp=67–68}}<ref name="Polilan2019"/> which was released by former Vice President of Fiji [[Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi]].<ref name="IndWeekend"/>

==Translations==
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!style="text-align:center; width:25%;" rowspan="2"|Translation
!colspan="2"|Chapter 26, Tabu lewenimanumanu
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!''Kural'' 254 (Couplet 26:4)
!''Kural'' 258 (Couplet 26:8)
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Samuel L. Berwick, 1964''||Na veivakamatei na tawa loloma<br>Vakamatei me kanii kua e tokona. ||Ke da rai yawa ka savasava<br>Lewe ni manumanu ’da na tawa sagaa.
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|''Paul Geraghty, 2008''||Na laba na ivalavalaca; e ivalavalaca tale ga na kania na lewe ni manumanu labati. ||Koya e cecere nona vakasama ena sega ni kana lewenimanumanu, ni dau rawa ga ena kena kau tani na bula ni manumanu.
|}

==Published translations==
* {{cite book |author=S. L. Berwick |title=Na Tirukurala |url= |year=1964 |publisher=Sri Ramakrishna Mission |location=Nadi|access-date= |isbn= }}
* {{cite book |author=Paul Geraghty |title=Fijian Tirukkurali: Na sere tabu |url= |year=2008 |publisher=Reddy Group of Companies |location=Suva|access-date= |isbn= 978-982-98034-1-2}}

==See also==
* [[Tirukkural translations]]
* [[List of Tirukkural translations by language]]

== References ==
{{Portal box|Tamils|India|Literature|Poetry}}
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url = http://www.oocities.org/nvkashraf/kur-trans/languages.htm | title = Thirukkural translations in different languages of the world | last = | first = | date = n.d. | website = OOCities | publisher = | access-date = 30 April 2017 | quote = }}

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[[Category:Tirukkural translations by language|Fijian]]
[[Category:Translations into Fijian]]

Tirukkural translations into Fijian - Revision history

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