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kuriyedhirpai neera thudaithu
To give to the needy alone is charity;All the rest is investment for a return.
Only the gifts given to the poor and the destitute are real charity. Gifts given to others are in the nature of business transactions. In respect of such gifts what is given is expected to be appropriately returned in due course.
The significant word is 'Kuriyedhirpai'. It denotes the record of presents received from relations and friends on special occasions, in accordance with customary social duty. Gifts like this are on record so that they may be compensated by equivalent or better gifts on a similar future occasion.
'Blessed is he that considereth the poor' says the Bible. Lord Jesus Christ taught the abiding virtues of faith, hope and charity and among these, gave prominence to charity. The exact parallel however, is the following from the New Testament:
'When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame and thou shalt be blessed because they cannot recompense thee.
(Luke 14:13-14)
Homer's lines recorded below are also relevant in this context:
'By
Jove
the
stranger
and
the
poor
are
sent;
and
what
to
these
we
give,
to
Jove
is
lent.
That this virtue was preached and practiced in Tamil society, during the Sangam period and before, is borne out by the two following quotations one from Naladiaar and the other from Muthollayiram, the latter of which is acknowledgedly a work that dates before Tholkaappiam, which itself records, along with an exhaustive grammar of the Tamil language, a little of the social history of the Tamil country, just before the period of the Sangam age (i.e.) (2nd century B C to first century A.D.)
Yaetrakaim
maatraamai
yenaanum
thaam
varaiyaadhu
Aaatraadhaark
keevadhaa
maankadan
(Naaladi-98)
Kootrungkuri yedhirpaik kollun thakaimaithe.
(Mutholaayiram-221)
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