The Learned People Shall Not Do Certain Things! Poem by Dr.V.K. Kanniappan

The learned people shall not retain in their home any women
Whom they had not loved and married;
the women who are unfit for married family life;

shall not climb on the established furrowed mounds where snakes live,
shall not become friends who are not equal to them,

shall not go near the place of stay of the arrogant
huge mountain like elephant of the king who practises wars

and shall not walk through the thick forest
where fierce tiger frequently moves!