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Thirukkural 1032

Kural 1032

உழுவார் உலகத்தார்க்கு ஆணிஅஃ தாற்றாது
எழுவாரை எல்லாம் பொறுத்து.

Uzhuvaar Ulakaththaarkku Aaniaq Thaatraadhu
Ezhuvaarai Ellaam Poruththu

The ploughers are the linch-pin of the world; they bearThem up who other works perform, too weak its toils to share

Meaning

Agriculturists are (as it were) the linch-pin of the world for they support all other workers who cannot till the soil.

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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