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Tirukural-On Virtue-Family Life-Kural 43
Thenpulathaar
dheyvam
virunthokkal,
thaanenraangu
Aimpulathaaru
ompal
thalai
It
is
paramount
for
the
householder
to
do
his
five-fold
duty,
To
his
ancestors,
his
parents,
guests,
kindred
and
self.
A
Good
householder
has
a
five-fold
duty
to
perform,
to
his
ancestors,
his
parents,
guests,
relations
and
finally
to
himself.
It was the accepted practice in the Tamil country those days, for a man's income to be divided into six parts, and one part of it to be fixed as the King's due. The other five were to be spent respectively on the five items above, as enunciated by Valluvar. Periapuranam also lists out these five categories to be looked after as follows:
Arasukol
kadangalaatri
miguthi
kondarangal
paeni
paravarum
kadavutpotri
kuravarum
virundhum
pinpin
viraviya
kilayundh
thaangi,
vilangiya
kudigal
oangi
varaipurai
maadam
needimalarndhulla
padhigal
yengum.
The Holy Koran also says:
'That which ye spend for good (must go) to parents, near kindred, orphans, the needy and the way-farer. And whatsoever good ye do, lo, Allah is aware of it'.
The term 'Thenpulathaar' or occupants of the South is believed to refer to 'pitrus' or godly ancestors. But there is yet another interpretation based on the history of repeated cyclones and sea-erosions in the South of Tamil Nadu. According to this, it is the duty of the householder to look after those who have escaped from the destructive action of the tidal waves in the South but rendered homeless and helpless. This Kind of exhortation is not anything new or strange to us, considering that, apart from those who have suffered by repeated cyclones in places like Rameshwaram, people of Tamil Origin who have been driven out of lands where they had once settled and prospered and since uprooted, are also receiving special attention as repatriates, from the Government and people of Tamil Nadu now-Cf: Burma repatriates and Ceylon repatriates and others.
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