Virtue (அறத்துப்பால்) — Ascetic Virtue (துறவறவியல்) — Abstinence from Flesh (புலான்மறுத்தல்)

Kural 251:
தன்னூன் பெருக்கற்குத் தான்பிறிது ஊனுண்பான்
எங்ஙனம் ஆளும் அருள்.
thannoon perukkaRkuth thaanpiRidhu oonuNpaan
enganam aaLum aruL
English couplet:
How can the wont of 'kindly grace' to him be known,
Who other creatures' flesh consumes to feed his own?.
Explanation: How can he be possessed of kindness, who to increase his own flesh, eats the flesh of other creatures.

Kural 252:
பொருளாட்சி போற்றாதார்க்கு இல்லை அருளாட்சி
ஆங்கில்லை ஊன்தின் பவர்க்கு.
poruLaatchi poatraadhaarkku illai aruLaatchi
aangillai oonthin pavarkku
English couplet:
No use of wealth have they who guard not their estate;
No use of grace have they with flesh who hunger sate.
Explanation: As those possess no property who do not take care of it, so those possess no kindness who feed on flesh.

Kural 253:
படைகொண்டார் நெஞ்சம்போல் நன்னூக்காது ஒன்றன்
உடல்சுவை உண்டார் மனம்.
padaikoNtaar nenjampoal nannookkaadhu ondran
udalsuvai uNdaar manam
English couplet:
Like heart of them that murderous weapons bear, his mind,
Who eats of savoury meat, no joy in good can find.
Explanation: Like the (murderous) mind of him who carries a weapon (in his hand), the mind of him who feasts with pleasure on the body of another (creature), has no regard for goodness.

Kural 254:
அருளல்ல தியாதெனிற் கொல்லாமை கோறல்
பொருளல்ல தவ்வூன் தினல்.
aruLalla thiyaadheniR kollaamai koaRal
poruLalla thavvoon thinal
English couplet:
'What's grace, or lack of grace'? 'To kill' is this, that 'not to kill';
To eat dead flesh can never worthy end fulfil.
Explanation: If it be asked what is kindness and what its opposite, the answer would be preservation and destruction of life; and therefore it is not right to feed on the flesh (obtained by taking away life).

Kural 255:
உண்ணாமை உள்ளது உயிர்நிலை ஊனுண்ண
அண்ணாத்தல் செய்யாது அளறு.
uNNaamai uLLadhu uyirnhilai oonuNNa
aNNaaththal seyyaadhu aLaRu
English couplet:
If flesh you eat not, life's abodes unharmed remain;
Who eats, hell swallows him, and renders not again.
Explanation: Not to eat flesh contributes to the continuance of life; therefore if a man eat flesh, hell will not open its mouth (to let him escape out, after he has once fallen in).

Kural 256:
தினற்பொருட்டால் கொல்லாது உலகெனின் யாரும்
விலைப்பொருட்டால் ஊன்றருவா ரில்.
thinarporuttaal kollaadhu ulakenin yaarum
vilaipporuttaal oondraruvaa ril
English couplet:
'We eat the slain,' you say, by us no living creatures die;
Who'd kill and sell, I pray, if none came there the flesh to buy?
Explanation: If the world does not destroy life for the purpose of eating, then no one would sell flesh for the sake of money.

Kural 257:
உண்ணாமை வேண்டும் புலாஅல் பிறிதொன்றன்
புண்ணது உணர்வார்ப் பெறின்.
uNNaamai vaeNdum pulaaal piRidhondran
puNNadhu uNarvaarp peRin
English couplet:
With other beings' ulcerous wounds their hunger they appease;
If this they felt, desire to eat must surely cease.
Explanation: If men should come to know that flesh is nothing but the unclean ulcer of a body, let them abstain from eating it.

Kural 258:
செயிரின் தலைப்பிரிந்த காட்சியார் உண்ணார்
உயிரின் தலைப்பிரிந்த ஊன்.
seyirin thalaippirindha kaatchiyaar uNNaar
uyirin thalaippirindha oon
English couplet:
Whose souls the vision pure and passionless perceive,
Eat not the bodies men of life bereave.
Explanation: The wise, who have freed themselves from mental delusion, will not eat the flesh which has been severed from an animal.

Kural 259:
அவிசொரிந் தாயிரம் வேட்டலின் ஒன்றன்
உயிர்செகுத் துண்ணாமை நன்று.
avisorinh thaayiram vaettalin ondran
uyirsekuth thuNNaamai nandru
English couplet:
Than thousand rich oblations, with libations rare,
Better the flesh of slaughtered beings not to share.
Explanation: Not to kill and eat (the flesh of) an animal, is better than the pouring forth of ghee etc., in a thousand sacrifices.

Kural 260:
கொல்லான் புலாலை மறுத்தானைக் கைகூப்பி
எல்லா உயிருந் தொழும்.
kollaan pulaalai maRuththaanaik kaikooppi
ellaa uyirunh thozhum
English couplet:
Who slays nought,- flesh rejects- his feet before
All living things with clasped hands adore.
Explanation: All creatures will join their hands together, and worship him who has never taken away life, nor eaten flesh.