Non-Killing
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uyiruṭampiṉ nīkkiyā reṉpa ceyiruṭampiṟ / cellāttī vāḻkkai yavar
“Who lead a loathed life in bodies sorely pained, / Are men, the wise declare, by guilt of slaughter stained.”
“Behold the man whose putrid body is festering with ulcerous sores: he must have been a shedder of blood in the past, say the wise.”
Those living in diseased bodies and in an abject life of poverty are said by interpreters of karma to be people who removed lives from bodies in a former birth.
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Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
செயிர் உடம்பின் செல்லாத் தீவாழ்க்கையவர்= நோக்கலாகா நோய்உடம்புடனே வறுமைகூர்ந்த இழிதொழில் வாழ்க்கையினை உடையாரை; உயிர் உடம்பின் நீக்கியார் என்ப= இவர் முற்பிறப்பின்கண் உயிர்களை அவை நின்றவுடம்பினின்று நீக்கினவர் என்று சொல்லுவார் வினை விளைவுகளை அறிந்தோர்.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
Those who suffer in diseased, mangled bodies and languish in wretched poverty are declared by the wise to be souls who stripped lives from bodies in former births.