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Thirukkural 46

Chapter 5: இல்வாழ்க்கை (Domestic Life) · Virtue

Kural 46

அறத்தாற்றின் இல்வாழ்க்கை ஆற்றின் புறத்தாற்றில்
போஒய்ப் பெறுவ தெவன்?

Araththaatrin Ilvaazhkkai Aatrin Puraththaatril
Pooip Peruva Thevan?

If man in active household life a virtuous soul retain, What fruit from other modes of virtue can he gain

Meaning

What will he who lives virtuously in the domestic state gain by going into the other, (ascetic) state ?

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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