Published 2022-12-10
Keywords
- Natrinai,
- Internal Virtue,
- Family,
- Internal Discipline
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Abstract
Natrinai is the first book in the collection of Ettuthogai. Natrinai is an introspective text. Internal ideas are more prominent in the text. The text also covers the characteristics of social virtues and about husband-wife love. The internal life is filled with love, chastity, cohabitation, marriage, domesticity, wealth. There are some immoral behaviors too that is, the boy refuses to see his love after love making, refuses to marry the girl, seeking for a prostitute without maintaining a household, all these are acts against morality. Virtue in internal life is the boy must marry the girl after love making, he should love his wife and maintain the family. Internal virtue is a restrictive system. Virtue is the only reason for internal discipline. The friend of a girl insists the boy to marry the girl and she tells since I have been a supporter of both of you, I am now a friend of both of you, so the virtue of a friend is manifested here as emphasizing family life by marrying her friend. In this society where many people live together, each has its own virtue. External life has its own virtues. Likewise, internal life is subjected to the concept of virtue. In this article, we can know the virtues for life in Natrinai.
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