Post No. 13,706
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1.This yellow slaveWill knit and break religions, bless the accursed,35Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thievesAnd give them title, knee and approbationWith senators on the bench: this is itThat makes the wappen’d widow wed again;– Power of gold in Timons of Athens
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2…………………………………‘Tis Gold
Which buys admittance- –Cymbeline
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3.If money go before , all ways do lie open-
Merry Wives of Windsor
Neither a borrower nor a lender be- Hamlet
These three shakesperean quotations are in Tamil and Sanskrit books. Money can buy anything and money is powerful is the message. But borrowing and lending will damage a friendship.
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In Sanskrit Panchatantra we see the other side of money
Money is trouble
A trouble to acquire; a trouble to protect
A trouble if it is lost; a trouble if it is spent
Money is nothing but trouble
Alas ! from beginning to end.
–Panchatantra Fables
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It adds money from bad people should not be accepted
Far better to thrust your hands into the jaws
of a snake hissing in fury;
Far better to swallow deadly poison
and sleep in the house of death;
Far far better it is to fall down the slopes
of the hoary mountain
and be dashed into a hundred pieces
rather than revel in riches got from rogues
–Panchatantra Fables
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Dying is better than Begging.
It is better for the penniless
To offer their lives up to the flames
than cringe for help before the niggard
who has brushed aside duty to help others
–Panchatantra Fables
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Tamil poems in Naladiyar 400 also show the power of money
NALADIYAR
Money makes a man the wanton’s darling.
To the damsels of loveless hearts, whose eyes are as beauteous as blue water-lilies, those who have no wealth are as poison! Even those who have turned the (oil) press, in sight of all men, if they have wealth, are as sugar to them.
That is lowest in the society gets respect if he has money.
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4. “With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman in the world, if a’ could get her good-will.”
—Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1
281.Money commands respect.(Naladiyar in Tamil)
Though he wraps a cloth dyed red around his loins, a dozen coins or so, will gain (the
wretch) respect among many men! The man devoid of wealth, though born of noble
race, is viler (in the world’s estimation) than a lifeless corpse !
In Timons of Athens, Shakespare sys even a leper gets respect if he has mony.
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In another poem of Naladiyar Money in the hands of a generous men is compared with learning.
386. Riches in the possession of a generous man resemble in their effects the learning acquired by a man of great natural ability ; the chastity of a modest woman is like a sharp sabre in the hands of a courageous man.
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Tiruvalluavr , author of tamil tirukkurals also said no one can enjoy life without money in Kural 247
As those without riches can have no enjoyments in tis world, so also are those without compassion denied the blessings of the world above- Kural 247
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Shakespeare says one’s view changes hen one gets money
3. “Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail and say there is no sin but to be rich; and being rich, my virtue then shall be to say there is no vice but beggary.”
—Bastard, The Life and Death of King John, Act 2 Scene 1
A Sanskrit sloka says when one has money one never feels the pain of penniless people
It says
Lakshmivantho na jaananthi praayena paravedathanaam
Seshe dharaabhaara klante chete narayanas sukham
Wealthy people never feels the pain or suffering of others like Lord Narayana is sleeping well on the Snake Adisesha which is already carrying the earth on its head
(Hindu mythology says that the earth is on the head of a snake or a turtle)
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Another Sanskrit poet agrees with Shakespeare that wealthy people are respected every where.
Vibhavah sarvatha poojyaah na sareeraani dehinaam
Cjandaalo api narah sreshstaa yasyaasthi vipulam dhanam
Wealthy people are welcomed everywhere. When it comes to human body, even a low caste person is praised as the best of men. If one has no money he is criticised.
All agree that money opens the wold for good and bad things.
There is a strange prediction in a Sanskrit sloka/coupet:
The money acquired through unfair means will stay only for ten years and in the 11th year it disappears completely:
Anyaaya upaarjitam dravyam dasa varshaani thistathi
Praapte s ekaadase varshesa moolam vinashyati
Tamil poet Tiruvalluvar says it in a different way
All profits , that make others weep ,depart with tears.
Even if lost, blessings flow from good deeds- Kural 569
We miss such moral views in Shakespeare’s works.
–Subham—
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