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As of 2025, [[Tirukkural]] has been translated into [[Saurashtra language|Saurashtra]] twice.<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>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/tirukkural-translations/article6618091.ece|title=Under the spell of the Kural|last=Krishnamachari|first=Suganthy|date=2014-11-20|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-06-11|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==Background==
An [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language belonging to the [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian branch]] of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language family]], Saurashtra, once spoken in the [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra region]] of [[Gujarat]], is spoken today chiefly by a small population of [[Saurashtra people|Saurashtrians]] settled in parts of [[Tamil Nadu]]. With the Saurashtrian language being the only Indo-Aryan language employing a [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian script]], the population's familiarity with the language resulted in the translation of the Tirukkural in this language spoken by a small number of people.

''Tirukkural Payiram—Pitika Pragaranam'' by [[Sankhu Ram|S. Sankhu Ram]] is the first known translation of the Kural text into the Saurashtra language. It was posthumously published in 1980 in [[Madurai]].<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 |page=683|location=Chennai|access-date= |language=Tamil|isbn= }}</ref> The work was published again in 1993.<ref name="Polilan2019"/>

The second translation was released in 2022 by the [[Central Institute of Classical Tamil]] (CICT) in Chennai as part of its Ancient Tamil Classics in Translations series. It was translated by T. R. Damodaran.

==Translations==
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!colspan="2"|Chapter 26, பல க2னிக் ஆக்ஷேபண
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!''Kural'' 254 (Couplet 26:4)
!''Kural'' 258 (Couplet 26:8)
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| style="text-align:center;"|''S. S. Ram, 1980''||த3க்ஷன்ஹரன் காய்மெனதி ஹிம்ஸஹரன் ஹிம்ஸகரன் அர்த்ஹரனு தேஆங்க்3 க2னி ||சூக்து4வெ சொக்உசித ஸூரின்ஹாத் தெ4ர்னானு ஜீவ்ஜியெ ஆங்கு3 சக்னோ
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==See also==
{{Portal|Tamils|India|Literature|Poetry}}
* [[Tirukkural translations]]
* [[List of Tirukkural translations by language]]

== References ==
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==Published Translations==
* Sankhu Ram (Trans.). (1993). ''Sourashtra Tirukkural (in Tamil Scripts)''. Madurai: Siddhasramam.

==External links==
* {{cite web | url = http://www.oocities.org/nvkashraf/kur-trans/Sau-Int.htm | title = Thirukkural in Saurashtra | last = Ashraf | first = N. V. K. | date = n.d. | website = OOCities | publisher = | access-date = 23 April 2017 | quote = }}

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