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Punithavathiyar of Karaikkal was deeply devoted to Shiva. One day her husband Paramadattan sent home two mangoes. Just then a hungry devotee of Shiva arrived. Only rice was ready, so she fed him lovingly and gave him one of the mangoes too.\n\nWhen her husband came to eat, she served him the other mango. Delighted by its taste, he asked for the second. With nothing left to give, she prayed to Shiva, and a divine mango appeared in her hand.\n\nLater she asked the Lord for the form of a ghostly devotee and was called 'Mother' by Shiva himself. Her life is the very image of giving first and eating after.","reflection_ta":"\u0b87\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bb5\u0bc1 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bc1\u0ba9\u0bcd, \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc8 \u0baf\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b92\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bbe?","reflection_en":"Before you eat today, could you set aside a share for someone?","image_prompt":"Punithavathiyar, a young woman in a simple sari, serving rice and a golden mango on a banana leaf to a hungry wandering devotee of Shiva at the doorway of her home in Karaikkal, Tanjore-painting inspired style with palm-leaf manuscript texture, ivory, ochre, copper and deep teal palette, no text or letters in the image."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/verse"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/3142\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}