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Love and affection are sung by poets around the world; even Tiru Valluvar says in one or more couplets here the wise say, the learned say etc which shows he has read many such works. The very first couplet is unique and his original. All the famous poets of the world have sung about love between a young man and a young woman; very few have sung about love and affection in the mankind- the universal brotherhood, friendship. Tiru Valluvar is the every few of such kind.

The very first Kural 71 has a Sanskrit word Thaaz/bolt.

This couplet would remind all Hindus the stories of Adi Sankara and Muthu Swami Dikshitar. Adi Sankara was so moved when a woman could not find anything but a gooseberry in the pickle’s jar when he begged for food at her door. Immediately he prayed to Goddess and she poured rain of golden gooseberries (Amalaka in Sanskrit, Nellikkay in Tamil).

When Muthuswamy Dikshitar, one of the Music Trinity, saw Ettayapuram  area without water, he sang Amritavarshni Raga in a prayer and God showered rain at once.

When he says even bones in Kural 72, immediately one will remember the great sacrifice of Dadhichi Rishi

Dadhichi Rishi is a revered Vedic sage in Hindu mythology celebrated for his supreme self-sacrifice. He voluntarily gave up his life, offering his own bones so the gods could forge the Vajra (a powerful weapon) to defeat the demon Vritrasura and restore peace to the universe. Vritra Asura was a Brahmin demon.

In these stories we see selfless love. Other poets sang about love of flesh, not soul. Devotional poets sang about love between God and Human beings.

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Following Translations are used:

1.A Aranganatha Mudaliyar – ANM+2 and B.L. Aranganatha iyer and R. Srinivasa Desikan. Year 1933 

2.S M Diaz, I G of Police- SMD Year 2000

3.Rev.Dr.GU Pope – GUP. Year 1886

4.Suddhananda Bharathiyar- SB

5.EVS Publishers, Singapore- EVS. Year 1986

6.H A Popley – HAP (not full book) Year 1931

7.Tamil Original

Part 15

Chapter 8 Love or  The Possession of Love

71.Is there a bolt to fasten the gates of love? The tender tear drops of the affectionate will proclaim to the world the love within— A Aranganatha Mudaliyar – ANM+2 and B.L. Aranganatha iyer and R. Srinivasa Desikan. Year 1933 

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71.Affection cannot be confined by shutters; uncontrollable tears will roll down spontaneously,

When one sees the sufferings and sorrows of the loved ones— S M Diaz, I G of Police- SMD Year 2000

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71.
And is there bar that can even love restrain?
The tiny tear shall make the lover’s secret plain.
Is there any fastening that can shut in love ? Tears of the affectionate will publish the love that is within.– Rev.Dr.GU Pope – GUP. Year 1886
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71.What bolt can bar true love in fact
The trickling tears reveal the heart– Suddhananda Bharathiyar- SB

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71.What can stop the spontaneity of love? The tears of those of loving nature, on seeing the distress of their beloved, will reveal the love within––EVS Publishers, Singapore- EVS. Year 1986

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71.Is there a bolt that can avail to shut up love?

The trickling tars of loving eyes will tell it- HAP (not full book) Year 1931

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71. அன்பிற்கும் உண்டோ அடைக்குந்தாழ் ஆர்வலர்
புன்கண்நீர் பூசல் தரும்

Adi Sankara made rain of Golden Gooseberries for a poor lady ;Muthuswamy Dikshita made rain to pour down on the arid area.

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72.The loveless live on earth for the benefit of themselves alone; but even their very bones the loving bring to the altar of service— ANM+2

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72.Those without affection in their hearts will keep all they have for themselves;

The tender hearted will even give away their bones— SMD

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72.
The loveless to themselves belong alone;
The loving men are others’ to the very bone.
Those who are destitute of love appropriate all they have to themselves; but those who possess love cons ider even their bones to belong to others.– – GUP
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72.To selves belong the loveless ones;
To oth’rs the loving e’en to bones.        — SB

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72.Those who are not of loving nature are all for themselves. Those that have love sacrifice even their body at the service of others-–EVS

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72.All for themselves the loveless spend;

The loving even their bones for others give- HAP

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72. அன்பிலார் எல்லாந் தமக்குரியர்: அன்புடையார்
என்பும் உரியர் பிறர்க்கு

Dadhichi Rishi gave his bones to kill Vritra Asura, a Brahmin demon.

Devas request Dadhichi’s bone to kill Brahmin Vritra asura.

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73.Only to weave an eternal bond of love and affection does the soul again and again enter her tabernacle; for has not life’s long pilgrimage its fruition in endless love?— ANM+2

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73.There can be life only when the body has soul in it;

Even so life without affection is no life at all— SMD

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73.
Of precious soul with body’s flesh and bone,
The union yields one fruit, the life of love alone.
They say that the union of soul and body in man is the fruit of the union of love and virtue (in a former birth).– – GUP

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73.Soul is encased in frame of bone
To taste the life of love alone.        – SB

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73.The wise say that the attachment the soul has for the body engenders in man the feeling of lov-–EVS

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73.The link of soul and body, say the wise,

Is but the fruit of man’s  own link with love- HAP

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73. அன்போடு இயைந்த வழக்கென்ப ஆருயிர்க்கு
என்போடு இயைந்த தொடர்பு

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74.Love of home begets tenderness to all; and tenderness grows into the priceless jewel of the brotherhood of man – ANM+2

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74.Affection endows one with ardour  and that leads

To admirable friendship— SMD

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74.
From love fond yearning springs for union sweet of minds;
And that the bond of rare excelling friendship binds.
Love begets desire: and that (desire) begets the immeasureable excellence of friendship.– – GUP
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74.Love yields aspiration and thence
Friendship springs up in excellence –SB

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74.Love begets amity, and that in turn brings an immeasurable glory of friendship—EVS

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74.Love doth the trait of tenderness beget;

That, too, begets true friendship’s priceless worth-HAP

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74. அன்புஈனும் ஆர்வம் உடமை: அதுஈனும்
நண்பென்னும் நாடாச் சிறப்பு

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75.What are the joys of heaven but the reward of our unbroken love on earth?– ANM+2

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75.Broad based affection for others leads to distinction in this life

While ensuring also eternal happiness—SMD

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Sweetness on earth and rarest bliss above,
These are the fruits of tranquil life of love.
They say that the felicity which those who, after enjoying the pleasure (of the conjugal state) in this world, obtain in heaven is the result of their domestic state imbued with love.– – GUP

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75.The crowning joy of home life flows
From peaceful psychic love always –SB

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75. The realisation of heavenly bliss follows a happy and affectionate householders life––EVS

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75.The bliss of earth and heaven the blessed gain,

The learned say, is rooted in loving life – HAP

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75. அன்புற்று அமர்ந்த வழக்கென்ப வையகத்து
இன்புற்றார் எய்துஞ் சிறப்பு

To be continued……………………

Tags- Tirukkural Encyclopaedia- Chapter 8 (Kural 71 to 75) , Love, Affection, Dadhichi, Sankara, Muthuswamy Dikshitar