Virtue
Chapter 21 – Dread of Evil Deeds
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 201 With sinful act men cease to feel the dread of ill within, The excellent will dread […]...
Chapter 22 – Duty to Society / Oppuravaridhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 211 Duty demands no recompense; to clouds of heaven, By men on earth, what answering gift is […]...
Chapter 23 – Giving / Eekai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 221 Call that a gift to needy men thou dost dispense, All else is void of good, […]...
Chapter 24 – Renown / Pukazh
Couplet 231 See that thy life the praise of generous gifts obtain; Save this for living man exists no real […]...
Chapter 25 – Compassion / Arulutaimai
Couplet 241 Wealth ‘mid wealth is wealth ‘kindliness’; Wealth of goods the vilest too possess. Explanation The wealth of kindness […]...
Chapter 26 – Abstinence from Flesh
Pulaanmaruththal Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 251 How can the wont of ‘kindly grace’ to him be known, Who other creatures’ flesh […]...
Chapter 27 – Penance / Thavam
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 261 To bear due penitential pains, while no offence He causes others, is the type of ‘penitence’. […]...
Chapter 28 – Imposture / Kootaavozhukkam
Couplet 271 Who with deceitful mind in false way walks of covert sin, The five-fold elements his frame composes, decide […]...