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The voices of the Thirukural

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Chapter 1 - VIRTUES 1. The praise of god

1. A, as its first of letters, every speech maintains; The"Prima Deity"is first through all the world's domains.

2. No fruit have men of all their studied lore, save they the 'Purely Wise One's feet adore.

3. His feet, 'who o 'er the full-blown flower hath past,' who gain in bliss long time shall dwell above this earthly plain.

4. His foot, 'Whom want affects not,' irks not grief, 'Who gain shall not, through every time, of any woes complain.

5. The men, Who on the 'King's true praised delight to dwell, Affects not them the fruit of deeds done ill or well.

6. Long live they blest, who' ve stood in path from falsehood freed; His, " Who quenched lusts that from the sense -gates five proceed".

7. Unless His foot, "to whom none can compare," men gain, ''Tis hard for mind to find relief from anxious pain.

8. Unless His feet "the Sea of Good, the Fair and Bountiful," men gain, ' Tis hard the further bank of being's changeful sea to attain.

9. Before his foot, "the Eight-fold Excellence," with unbent head, who stands, like palsied sense, is to all living functions dead.

10. They swim the sea of births, the "Monarch's foot who gain; None others reach the shore of being"s mightily main.