Thiruvalluvar Statue Wikipedia The Thiruvalluvar Statue or the Valluvar Statue is a 133 feet 40 6 m tall stone sculpture of the Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar author of the Tirukkural an ancient Tamil work on secular ethics and morality It is located atop a small island near the town of Kanyakumari on the southernmost point of the Indian peninsula on the Coromandel Coast where