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Purankuramai

Avoid slander-mongering

Arankuran alla seiyinum oruvan
Purnakuran endral inidhu

Though good not done
Slanderous nature gone

Aranazhiyee allavai seidhalin theedhay
Puranazhiyee poithu nagai

Enemy open is better
For slandering bitter

Purankuri poithuyir vazhdhalin sadhal
Arankurum aakkam mtharum

Death considered devine than
Slanderous life span

Kannindru kannara sollinum sollarka
Munnindru pinnokka sol

Scolding serves better afront
Backbiting rather different

Aransollum nenjathan anmai puransollum
Punmaiyar kaana padum

Praising on face waste
Cursing back taste

Piranpazhi kooruvan thanpazhi ullum
Thirantherindhu koora padum

Self-exposed he who slanders
Tells others' blunders

Pagasolli kelir pirippar nagasolli
Natpadal thetra thavar

Friends not made, words
Hostile spoken swords

Thunniyar kutramum thootrum marabinar
Ennaikol yethilar maatku

Shuddering to harm unknown
Bothering better known

Arannokki aatrunkol vaiyam purannokki
Punndol uraippan porai

World patient on slanderer
Mould as launderer

Ethilar kutrampol thangutram kaangirpin
Theethundo mannum uyirku

World would not befall
Wrongs forgotten all