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Thirukkural 42

Chapter 5: இல்வாழ்க்கை (Domestic Life) · Virtue

Kural 42

துறந்தார்க்கும் துவ்வாதவர்க்கும் இறந்தார்க்கும்
இல்வாழ்வான் என்பான் துணை.

Thurandhaarkkum Thuvvaa Dhavarkkum Irandhaarkkum
Ilvaazhvaan Enpaan Thunai

To anchorites, to indigent, to those who've passed away, The man for household virtue famed is needful held and stay

Meaning

He will be said to flourish in domestic virtue who aids the forsaken, the poor, and the dead.

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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