[2] "Valluvar is a cunning technician, who, by prodigious self-restraint and artistic vigilance, super-charges his words with meaning and achieves an incredible terseness and an irreducible density.
The Kural remains the most reviewed work of the Tamil literature, with almost every scholar down the ages having written commentaries on it.
[6][7] The commentaries of Dharumar, Dhamatthar, and Nacchar have survived only in fragmentary form, and those of Thirumalaiyar and Mallar are now lost completely.
[16] The following table lists the variations between ordering of chapters in Book I by Manakkudavar (the oldest) and that by Parimelalhagar (the latest).
[23] All these commentators lived in a time that is now known among literary scholars as "the golden age of Tamil prosaic literature".