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māṟupā ṭillāta vuṇṭi maṟuttuṇṇi / ṉūṟupā ṭillai yuyirkku.
If a person eats food that holds nothing in conflict, and eats it refusing — below the measure the mind is asking for — no injury comes to that person's life.
▸Other translations · Pope (1886) & Aiyar (1916)
“With self-denial take the well-selected meal; / So shall thy frame no sudden sickness feel.”
“If thou eat abstemiously the food that doth not disagree with thee thou wilt have no troubles in the body.”
Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
மாறுபாடு இல்லாத உண்டி மறுத்து உண்ணின்= அம்மூவகை மாறுகோளும் இல்லாத உணவைத் தன்னுள்ளம் வேண்டிய அளவினான்அன்றிப் பிணிவாரா அளவினால் ஒருவன் உண்ணுமாயின்; உயிர்க்கு ஊறுபாடு இல்லை= அவன் உயிர்க்குப் பிணிகளால் துன்பம் விளைதல் உண்டாகாது.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
If you eat food that does not disagree with you, refusing the amount your own appetite asks for, no suffering from illness comes to your life. (This is the reading of the old treatises; decisions about health belong with a qualified doctor.)