Dr.V.K. Kanniappan Poems

A person who owns oxen and bulls is a farmer,

A Brahman who is unable to win by valor
To get things done as he likes to his favor
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Simple Flat drum, a percussion instrument,
made of animal skin is better than a Lute
which, if it lacks in producing melodious note;
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The calf of high breed cow
...can be sold for a higher price!

The people will listen to the words
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The persons who are under make up
as husband and wife in a fake drama,

If they don't do their duty perfectly
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Early to bed and early to rise
is a proverb said by elders,
This is the time to study
and remember your lessons;
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Feeling shy while others praise exuberantly,
Bearing patiently while somebody speak of you indifferently,
Doing virtuous deeds to everybody like clouds pouring rains
without discrimination to anybody are the three qualities
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The life and exuberant wealth one has,
Without exchanging frequently pleasantries,
Knowing the well being of friends,
Difficulties of his relatives,
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If one happens to enter into the den of a lion,
He can get the tusks of an elephant
and costly pearls of enlarging illumination!
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The unmistakable discipline is equivalent to the wealth!
The disciplined family life is equivalent to the penance!

To back bite and speak ill of others in their absence
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If one happen to stay away from the discipline
of what he had learnt on one side,

To go away indifferently to the wrong ways
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