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நல்லோர் மனத்தை நடுங்கச் செய்தேனோ!
வலிய வழக்கிட்டு மானங் கெடுத்தேனோ!
தானங் கொடுப்போரைத் தடுத்து நின்றேனோ! கலந்த சினேகரைக் கலகஞ் செய்தேனோ! |
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Don’t let the good people’s hearts tremble.
Don’t begin a dispute and bring un disrepute.
Don’t deter charity givers.
Don’t divide trusted friends.
Don’t be false to true friendship.
Don’t plunder people with high taxes.
Don’t cause the poor intense suffering.
Don’t mete out unjust punishment
Don’t spoil life speaking in a biased manner.
Don’t be of help to those who destroy life.
Don’t tell secret to robbers.
Don’t utter lies for coveting possessions.
Don’t tempt and deceive.
Don’t close and cut short social relationships.
Don’t engage labour and pay less.
Don’t turn away from the hungry.
Don’t say ‘no’ to seekers of alms.
Don’t carry tales and split a family.
Don’t leave others in the lurch in a crisis.
Don’t betray those hiding in fear.
Don’t mix with those who have committed rape.
Don’t despoil a maiden under your charge.
Don’t corrupt those who stand by your husband.
Don’t abort a birth and feel glad of it.
Don’t hesititate to honour your guru.
Don’t forget to make your offerings to the guru.
Don’t fall fowl on the learned.
Don’t find fault with the verses of scholars.
Don’t cage birds to their utter discomfort.
Don’t tether a calf without feeding it with milk.
Don’t live on fleshy food.
Don’t sell rice mixed with stones.
Don’t harm the kind-hearted.
Don’t fill up a drinking water tank.
Don’t cut down shady trees.
Don’t destroy others crops in animus.
Don’t demolish a community hall.
Don’t keep the doors of temple closed.
Don’t deride shiva’s devotees.
Don’t speak ill of those who do penance.
Don’t blaspheme great mystics.
Don’t disregard the words of parents.
Don’t dishonour gods and feel proud.
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Ref:Thiru Arutpa Song No: Manu murai Kanda vasagam
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Translated by Prof.Dr.R.Ganapathy, Sakkakalai Monthly Magazine ,Feb’2008
Professor of English(Rtd,),
Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar.
Sakkakalai Monthly Magazine ,Feb’2008
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