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Thirukkural 1029

Chapter 103: குடிசெயல் வகை (The Way of Maintaining the Family) · Wealth

Kural 1029

இடும்பைக்கே கொள்கலம் கொல்லோ குடும்பத்தைக்
குற்ற மறைப்பான் உடம்பு.

Itumpaikke Kolkalam Kollo Kutumpaththaik
Kutra Maraippaan Utampu

Is not his body vase that various sorrows fill, Who would his household screen from every ill

Meaning

Is it only to suffering that his body is exposed who undertakes to preserve his family from evil ?

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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