My answer to a query in another forum
Query: Sahasram vadha, yekam maa likha. Our respected and beloved Ananthanarayanan Vaidyanathan mama will throw more light on this. (This was for laying down laws...... in my limited knowledge, implying writing laws does not make good)
My reply
सहस्रं वद एकं मा लिख
It is a general statement..
Our lawmakers were very sensible, sensible to a fault..
They always envisaged strife.. in small ways and huge ways too..
When the emotions are running high people will tell so many things, many of such things not right and good for anyone..
But it is possible that in the heat of the argument, out of thousand things said, seven hundred may go unheard, and even out of the remaining only fifty may register and ultimately one or two may be remembered.
But when we write, especially judging by the way we used to write on stone or on palm leaves with sharp stencils, of on parchments with fast colours, the written things would not disappear for long periods to come , and those things will be read and read repeatedly and each time people would read the words, read between the words, read the sentences, read between the sentences, read the lines and read between the lines, and each reading can lead to greater troubles and calamities if the writing is bad..
So writing should be avoided as much as possible..
Written material has one benefit anyway.. if you are not able to sleep for ten days and still start reading some law book like the "Incometax Act" (I personally know it) within a few minutes you will be snoring and dreaming.
Even good writing would become boring when read repeatedly.. Hearing or speaking is better..
Write the poem of Kannadasan.."மலர்ந்து மலராத..." ten times on a paper, or simply read it silently for ten times.... you will run away..
But if you have a sweet voice, sing that song thousand times, or hear TMSoundararaja sing it any number of times... you will never stop..
This explains the difference between words spoken and words written.
Query: Sahasram vadha, yekam maa likha. Our respected and beloved Ananthanarayanan Vaidyanathan mama will throw more light on this. (This was for laying down laws...... in my limited knowledge, implying writing laws does not make good)
My reply
सहस्रं वद एकं मा लिख
It is a general statement..
Our lawmakers were very sensible, sensible to a fault..
They always envisaged strife.. in small ways and huge ways too..
When the emotions are running high people will tell so many things, many of such things not right and good for anyone..
But it is possible that in the heat of the argument, out of thousand things said, seven hundred may go unheard, and even out of the remaining only fifty may register and ultimately one or two may be remembered.
But when we write, especially judging by the way we used to write on stone or on palm leaves with sharp stencils, of on parchments with fast colours, the written things would not disappear for long periods to come , and those things will be read and read repeatedly and each time people would read the words, read between the words, read the sentences, read between the sentences, read the lines and read between the lines, and each reading can lead to greater troubles and calamities if the writing is bad..
So writing should be avoided as much as possible..
Written material has one benefit anyway.. if you are not able to sleep for ten days and still start reading some law book like the "Incometax Act" (I personally know it) within a few minutes you will be snoring and dreaming.
Even good writing would become boring when read repeatedly.. Hearing or speaking is better..
Write the poem of Kannadasan.."மலர்ந்து மலராத..." ten times on a paper, or simply read it silently for ten times.... you will run away..
But if you have a sweet voice, sing that song thousand times, or hear TMSoundararaja sing it any number of times... you will never stop..
This explains the difference between words spoken and words written.
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