Thirukkural · பொருட்பால் · கல்வி

Thirukkural 400

Kural 400

கேடில் விழுச்செல்வம் கல்வி யொருவற்கு
மாடல்ல மற்றை யவை.

Ketil Vizhuchchelvam Kalvi Yoruvarku
Maatalla Matrai Yavai

Learning is excellence of wealth that none destroy; To man nought else affords reality of joy

Meaning

Learning is the true imperishable riches; all other things are not riches.

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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