GREATEST TAMIL POET TIRU VALLUVAR

VALLUVAR AND HIS WIFE VASUKI IN ANCIENT TEMPLE IN MYLAPORE, CHENNAI.

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Part 27

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; only selected couplets) Year 1931

7.Tamil Original

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Translations of G U Pope and Suddananda Bharatiyar are taken from ProjectMadurai website;thanks.

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ORIGINAL VALLUVAR; NOT CORRUPTED BY DRAVIDIANS.

CHAPTER 14 ON RIGHT CONDUCT 14. ஒழுக்கமுடைமை

131.Purity of conduct leads to honour and therefore is it priced more precious than life– A Aranganatha Mudaliyar – ANM+2 and B.L. Aranganatha iyer and R. Srinivasa Desikan. Year 1933

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131.As disciplined conduct counts for the highest values in life,

It is cherished as more precious than life itself- S M Diaz, I G of Police- SMD, Year 2000

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131.
‘Decorum’ gives especial excellence; with greater care
‘Decorum’ should men guard than life, which all men share.
Propriety of conduct leads to eminence, it should therefore be preserved more carefully than life. —Rev.Dr.GU Pope – GUP. Year 1886
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131. Decorum does one dignity
More than life guard its purity  —  Suddhananda Bharathiyar- SB

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131.Right conduct makes one great; hence Right conduct is deemed greater than life— EVS Publishers, Singapore- EVS, Year 1986

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131.Right conduct to true greatness leads;

It should be held more dear than life itself— H A Popley – HAP (not full book; only selected couplets) Year 1931

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131. ஒழுக்கம் விழுப்பம் தரலான் ஒழுக்கம்
உயிரினும் ஓம்பப் படும்.

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MILK ABISHEKAM TO VALLUVAR IN CHENNAI TEMPLE

132.Keep an anxious vigil over your conduct; it is the only ally the sage in deep meditation has found for the heavenward march of the soul— ANM+2

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132.Right conduct ultimately matters even to the learned and the wise,

And has therefore, to be zealously guarded—– SMD

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132.
Searching, duly watching, learning, ‘decorum’ still we find;
Man’s only aid; toiling, guard thou this with watchful mind.
Let propriety of conduct be laboriously preserved and guarded; though one know and practise and excel in many virtues, that will be an eminent aid.–GUP

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132. Virtues of conduct all excel;
The soul aid should be guarded well- SB

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132.Safeguard and maintain your good conduct with assiduous care, for it is the one virtue of all which gives you true succour—– EVS

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132.Guard well thy conduct; study as thou wilt,

A better help thou canst not find- HAP

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132. பரிந்தோம்பிக் காக்க ஒழுக்கம் தெரிந்தோம்பித்
தேரினும் அஃதே துணை.

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133.True nobility is of the very stuff of right conduct; but an evil course drags a man down to the rank of the lowliest, and the lost— ANM+2

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133.Right conduct is true nobility;

The absence of it is just ignoble –– SMD

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133.
‘Decorum’s’ true nobility on earth;
‘Indecorum’s’ issue is ignoble birth.
Propriety of conduct is true greatness of birth, and impropriety will sink into a mean birth–GUP
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133. Good conduct shows good family
Low manners mark anomaly- SB       

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133.Good conduct constitutes high birth. Lapse of conduct lowers one’s rank of birth—– EVS

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133. ஒழுக்கம் உடமை குடிமை இழுக்கம்
இழிந்த பிறப்பாய் விடும்.

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134. The  Vedas which have grown shadowy and vague beyond recollection, a brahmin can learn anew; but his high birthright he never can regain once fallen from him high estate— ANM+2

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134.The brahmin who has forgotten his scriptures could read them up again;

But if he neglects right conduct he will lose his birth right—– SMD

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134.
Though he forget, the Brahman may regain his Vedic lore;
Failing in ‘decorum due,’ birthright’s gone for evermore.
A Brahman though he should forget the Vedas may recover it by reading; but, if he fail in propriety of conduct even his high bi rth will be destroyed–GUP.

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134.Readers recall forgotten lore,
But conduct lost returns no more–  SB

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134.If a man forgets his learning, he may re acquire it; but if he fails in his conduct he slips down in his rank of birth—– EVS

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134. மறப்பினும் ஒத்துக் கொளலாகும் பார்ப்பான்
பிறப்பொழுக்கங் குன்றக் கெடும்.

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VALLUVAR STATUE IN INDIAN OCEAN ISLAND COUNTRY- MAURITIUS WITH PUVANA SARMA.

135. Wealth is not for the envious. The grace and dignity of life are not for men of ignoble conduct– ANM+2

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135.The envious gather no wealth, and

The unrighteous are never great–– SMD

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135.
The envious soul in life no rich increase of blessing gains,
So man of ‘due decorum’ void no dignity obtains.
Just as the envious man will be without wealth, so will the man of destitute of propriety of conduct be without greatness- GUP
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135.The envious prosper but ill
The ill-behaved sinks lower still- SB

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135.Even as a man with an envious nature cannot get riches, so also a man without character cannot have greatness–– EVS

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135. அழுக்கா றுடையான்கண் ஆக்கம்போன்று இல்லை
ஒழுக்க மிலான்கண் உயர்வு.

to be continued…………………….

TAGS- Part 27, Tirukkural Encyclopaedia- Chapter 14 (Kural 131-135), ON RIGHT CONDUCT ,  ஒழுக்கமுடைமை