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Thirukkural 147

Chapter 15: பிறனில் விழையாமை (Not Coveting Another's Wife) · Virtue

Kural 147

அறனியலான் இல்வாழ்வான் என்பான் பிறனியலாள்
பெண்மை நயவா தவன்.

Araniyalaan Ilvaazhvaan Enpaan Piraniyalaal
Penmai Nayavaa Thavan

Who sees the wife, another's own, with no desiring eyeIn sure domestic bliss he dwelleth ever virtuously

Meaning

He who desires not the womanhood of her who should walk according to the will of another will be praised as a virtuous house-holder.

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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