Tolkappiyar

“ Husband solicitudes his wife by conferring his falsehood. (19) Bestowing words of kindness is nature in wife’s behavior. (20) Gossip Gossip will arise in both clandestine and wedded life. (21) Love-gossip makes the bliss enhance. (22) Husband’s play with other woman will be spoken as gossip. (23) Husband’s ill-behavior of such kind will never come from the mouth of personal mediators but by the common people. (24) Personal mediators confess before wife their inability to avoid her husband’s ill-deed to pacify her. (25) They point her husband as third person. ”

“ Seeking the pleasure of life the hero will play in flowing water of river and deep water of ponds in remote places of his native village. (50) Renunciation The husband and wife, in their old age of lust-less mood, live together enjoying with and counseling to their fostering off-springs and kiths leading virtuous life. This is the goal-aim of life. ”

“ He also explains to the heroine the importance of her husband leaving her to earn wealth. He professes them the omen of ‘cow-sign’ when the hero leaving his wife to earn money. He guides him to earn money and defer him in his action. (36) All the mediators of love affairs All the mediators mend the hero and heroine to enhance the pleasure of their love. (37) When the hero appears in loveless passion, they instruct the hero in a separate place (not before the heroine) . (38) Some kinds of culture The heroine never excels herself before the hero, except in two occasions mentioned earlier. ”