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Poet Thiruvalluvar. The combined height of the statue and pedestal is 133 feet (41 metres), denoting the 133 chapters of the Thirukkural.This includes 95 feet (29 metres) sculpture of Valluvar standing upon a 38 feet (12 metres) pedestal that represents the 38 chapters of Virtue, the first of the three books of the Kural text.
A long sight of 133 feet high of Thiruvalluvar Statue and an excellent view of Swamy Vivekananda rock that accommodates his Statue of standing Posture amidst the sea in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu in India.
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Thiruvalluvar statue at SOAS, University of London A temple-like memorial to Valluvar, Valluvar Kottam , was built in Chennai in 1976. [ 111 ] This monument complex consists of structures usually found in Dravidian temples , [ 112 ] including a temple car [ 113 ] carved from three blocks of granite , and a shallow, rectangular pond. [ 111 ]
Sarvajna and Tiruvalluvar are popular Kannada and Tamil poets, respectively. Statues of Sarvajna in Tamil Nadu and Tiruvalluvar in Karnataka has been unveiled in August 2009 as a symbolic effort to bolster ties between the two Indian states, whose relationship has been strained by issues related to sharing of Kaveri water and Hogenakkal water supply power project.
World's second tallest Hanuman statue: 2003 Statue of Wisdom: Thiruvalluvar: Kanniyakumari: Tamil Nadu: 40.5 133: The entire 133 feet monument depicts the three sections of Thirukkural, namely, virtue (38 chapters), wealth (70 chapters) and love (25 chapters). [6] The statue has a height of 95 feet (29 m) and stands upon a 38-foot (11.5 m ...
The Thiruvalluvar Statue, whose construction started in 1990 and completed in 1999, [77] is a 133-feet high (statue height 95 feet erected on a 38 feet stone pedestal [75]) dedicated to the Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar, who wrote Thirukkural, considered one of the greatest works in literature of morality and ethics. The height signifies the 133 ...