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language then known to the Tamil poets. They accepted it therefore as a very creditable performance, and each of the poets expressed his opinion in a stanza addressed to the king. Irayanâr very truly predicted that the work of Valluvar will live for ever and be a source of instruction to many generations to come. Kalladar was surprised that the six religious sects which ever wrangle with one another, for once agreed in accepting as true the Muppâl composed by Valluvar. “Nedu Mâra, that wieldest the sword of victory which has cut down thy enemies !“ exclaimed another poet “having heard from the mouth of Valluvanar, what we never heard before, we know what is virtue, what is wealth, and what is love and clear to us is the way to eternal bliss.” “The Brahmins” observed another poet “preserve the Vedas orally and commit them not to writing, being afraid that they would then be less valued. But the Muppâl of Valluvar though written on leaves and read by all would never lose its value.” ”The Sun, Moon, Venus, and Jupiter swiftly dispel darkness from the face of the earth” remarked an astronomer “but the light which illuminates the minds of men is the Kural of the learned Valluvar.” “Thou (king who exultest in thy strength.) like the elephant which batters rocks with its tusks! all are relieved of their headache by smelling the seenthil salt and sliced dry ginger mixed with honey: but Chathan was relieved of his headache by hearing the Muppâl of Valluvar,” said a physician who took this opportunity of publishing his recipe for headache, and cracked a joke at his fellow-poet Chathanar, who had a habit of striking his head with his iron, stylus, every time he heard an incorrect or inelegant expression, but who did not even once strike his head during the whole of the time that the Kural was being explained to the Sangha or College. “Faultless in verse, in language and in sense, is the sweet Kural which embodies in itself the wisdom of all authors, and all ages” said another poet. Hearing the praise unanimously bestowed on the Kural, the king Ugra Pandya eulogised the author and his great work as follows:— ” The four faced Brahma disguised as Valluvar has imparted to us the truths of the four Vedas, in the Muppâl, which should therefore be adored by the head, perused by the mouth, listened to by the ear and studied by the mind.”