Virtue (அறத்துப்பால்) Domestic Virtue
When love, kindness and affection are needed.
Anpirkum Unto Ataikkundhaazh AarvalarPunkaneer Poosal Tharum
Is there any fastening that can shut in love ? Tears of the affectionate will publish the love that is within
And is there bar that can even love restrain?The tiny tear shall make the lover's secret plain
G. U. Pope, 1886
Anpilaar Ellaam Thamakkuriyar AnputaiyaarEnpum Uriyar Pirarkku
Those who are destitute of love appropriate all they have to themselves; but those who possess love consider even their bones to belong to others
The loveless to themselves belong alone; The loving men are others' to the very bone
G. U. Pope, 1886
Anpotu Iyaindha Vazhakkenpa AaruyirkkuEnpotu Iyaindha Thotarpu
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)
Of precious soul with body's flesh and bone, The union yields one fruit, the life of love alone
G. U. Pope, 1886
Anpu Eenum Aarvam UtaimaiAdhueenum Nanpu Ennum Naataach
Love begets desire: and that (desire) begets the immeasureable excellence of friendship
From love fond yearning springs for union sweet of minds; And that the bond of rare excelling friendship binds
G. U. Pope, 1886
Anputru Amarndha Vazhakkenpa VaiyakaththuInputraar Eydhum Sirappu
These are the fruits of tranquil life of love
Sweetness on earth and rarest bliss above, These are the fruits of tranquil life of love
G. U. Pope, 1886
Araththirke Anpusaar Penpa AriyaarMaraththirkum Aqdhe Thunai
The ignorant say that love is an ally to virtue only, but it is also a help to get out of vice
The unwise deem love virtue only can sustain, It also helps the man who evil would restrain
G. U. Pope, 1886
Enpi Ladhanai Veyilpolak KaayumeAnpi Ladhanai Aram
Virtue will burn up the soul which is without love, even as the sun burns up the creature which is without bone, ie worms
As sun's fierce ray dries up the boneless things, So loveless beings virtue's power to nothing brings
G. U. Pope, 1886
Anpakath Thillaa Uyirvaazhkkai VanpaarkanVatral Marandhalirth Thatru
The domestic state of that man whose mind is without love is like the flourishing of a withered tree upon the parched desert
The loveless soul, the very joys of life may know, When flowers, in barren soil, on sapless trees, shall blow
G. U. Pope, 1886
Puraththurup Pellaam Evanseyyum YaakkaiAkaththuruppu Anpi Lavarkku
Of what avail are all the external members (of the body) to those who are destitute of love, the internal member
Though every outward part complete, the body's fitly framed; What good, when soul within, of love devoid, lies halt and maimed
G. U. Pope, 1886
Anpin Vazhiyadhu Uyirnilai AqdhilaarkkuEnpudhol Porththa Utampu
That body alone which is inspired with love contains a living soul: if void of it, (the body) is bone overlaid with skin
Bodies of loveless men are bony framework clad with skin; Then is the body seat of life, when love resides within
G. U. Pope, 1886
