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In Tamil Nadu, previous D M K Government arrested a few speakers for teaching children about Papa, Punya, Rebirth etc from devotional hymns of Alvars and Nayanmars, the Tamil Vaishnavite and Saivite saints. Already we saw Hindutva Valluvar teaching women worship your husband and not the God so that you can command Rainy clouds to pour down. Again, the same Hindutva Valluvar asked Tamils to feed the guests every day so that Goddess Lakshmi will shower wealth in their housse. He did not stop there. He says if you eat the leftover after you fed the guests your fields will produce grains magically; you don’t need to sow the seeds! So superstitious!

And he talks about Indra’s Amrita (ambrosia) again and again. He called it Saavaa Marunthu meaning it will give you eternal life; no death at all; all superstition according to Dravidian Extremists.

But most of the Tamils knew that Dravidians were careful to avoid such Kural couplets in the past. All the Tamil writers are very careful to avoid hundreds of references to prostitutes in Sangam Tamil Books.

Here in the chapter on Hospitality, Hindutva Valluvar repeated his old beliefs.

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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

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Part 17

Chapter 9 Hospitality

1.2.5 Cherishing Guests

81.What keeps alive the endless toil of the home of the wise? It is the love of the guests and pilgrims that seek shelter under the roof— A Aranganatha Mudaliyar – ANM+2 and B.L. Aranganatha iyer and R. Srinivasa Desikan. Year 1933 

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81.The only purpose, of a family of life of virtue and wealth,

Is to command the means of extending hospitality to guests— S M Diaz, I G of Police- SMD Year 2000

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81.
All household cares and course of daily life have this in view.
Guests to receive with courtesy, and kindly acts to do.
The whole design of living in the domestic state and laying up (property) is (to be able) to exercise the
benevolence of hospitality.– Rev.Dr.GU Pope – GUP. Year 1886
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81.Men set up home, toil and earn
To tend the guests and do good turn.         Suddhananda Bharathiyar- SB

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81.The sole purpose of a householder’s life and acquisition of wealth is to entertain guests and be hospitable to them— EVS Publishers, Singapore- EVS. Year 1986

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81.The wealth and joy of home life have one aim:

To cherish guests and show them kindness— HAP (not full book) Year 1931

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81. இருந்தோம்பி இல்வாழ்வ தெல்லாம் விருந்தோம்பி
வேளாண்மை செய்தற் பொருட்டு

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82.What though our festive board is crowned with the rich wine of the gods when our guests hungrily wait  at our doors?— ANM+2

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82.Even the nectar of immortality is not to be consumed

Without sharing with the guests waiting outside— SMD

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82.
Though food of immortality should crown the board,
Feasting alone, the guests without unfed, is thing abhorred.
It is not fit that one should wish his guests to be outside (his house) even though he were eating the food of immortality. –GUP

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82.To keep out guests cannot be good
Albeit you eat nectar-like food –SB

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82.Even though what one eats be ambrosia , eating it alone without sharing it with one’s guests is highly improper—- EVS

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82.To eat oneself while stranger waits without

Makes even immortal nectar undesired— HAP

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Devas and Asuras Churnung Milky ocean to get Amrita (Nectar of Immortality)

82. விருந்து புறத்ததாத் தானுண்டல் சாவா
மருந்தெனினும் வேண்டற்பாற் றன்று

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83.If there a home that falls on evil days which is hallowed by the presence of the guests that daily pour in?— ANM+2

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83.The life of a man who extends hospitality to guests everyday

Will never be affected by any untoward development – SMD

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83.
Each day he tends the coming guest with kindly care;
Painless, unfailing plenty shall his household share.
The domestic life of the man that daily entertains the guests who come to him shall not be laid waste by poverty.– GUP

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83.Who tends his guests day in and out
His life in want never wears out.–        SB

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83.He who daily entertain the guests who go to him will never be ruined by poverty—- EVS

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83.Who daily cheriseth the coming guest

Shall never by want or woe be hard oppressed—HAP

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83. வருவிருந்து வைகலும் ஓம்புவான் வாழ்க்கை
பருவந்து பாழ்படுதல் இன்று

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84.Lovingly the Goddess of Wealth ever adorns with her gracious presence the hearths and homes of those, who honour heir guests  with a countenance  decked in smiles— ANM+2

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84.Laxmi, the Goddess of Wealth, will graciously live in the house,

Of one who feeds his guests with a cheerful face— SMD

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84
With smiling face he entertains each virtuous guest,
‘Fortune’ with gladsome mind shall in his dwelling rest.
Lakshmi with joyous mind shall dwell in the house of that man who, with cheerful countenance, entertains the good as guests.—GUP

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84.The goddess of wealth will gladly rest
Where smiles welcome the worthy guest.  —      SB
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84.The goddess of fortune will be pleased to dwell in the home of the man who entertains his guests cheerfully—- EVS

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84.Lakshmi with joyful heart will dwell with him

Who with a cheerful mien his guest receives— HAP

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84. அகனமர்ந்து செய்யாள் உறையும் முகனமர்ந்து
நல்விருந்து ஓம்புவான் இல்.

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85.Even unsown, the fields of one rustle with the rich manes of corn that regales one’s guests and then feeds on what remains– ANM+2

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85.A man who feeds his guests before he has his own repast on the remnants,

Does not even have to sow seeds in his field—SMD

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85.
Who first regales his guest, and then himself supplies,
O’er all his fields, unsown, shall plenteous harvests rise.
Is it necessary to sow the field of the man who, having feasted his guests, eats what may remain ?—GUP

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85.Should his field be sown who first
Feeds the guests and eats the rest? —       SB

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85.The farm of the man who feeds his guests first and eats  what is left, will yield crops even though seeds may not be sown— EVS

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85.What need is there that he should sow his field

Who welcomes guests and eats but what remains?—HAP

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85. வித்தும் இடல்வேண்டும் கொல்லோ விருந்தோம்பி
மிச்சில் மிசைவான் புலம்.

To be continued……………………………………….

Tags- Dravidians, may ban, Hindutva Vallluvar, Tirukkural Encyclopaedia- Chapter 9 (Kural 81-85), Hospitality, Lakshmi, Amrita