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Thirukkural 52

Chapter 6: வாழ்க்கைத் துணைநலம் (The Worth of a Wife) · Virtue

Kural 52

மனைமாட்சி இல்லாள்கண் இல்லாயின் வாழ்க்கை
எனைமாட்சித் தாயினும் இல்.

Manaimaatchi Illaalkan Illaayin Vaazhkkai
Enaimaatchith Thaayinum Il

If household excellence be wanting in the wife, Howe'er with splendour lived, all worthless is the life

Meaning

If the wife be devoid of domestic excellence, whatever (other) greatness be possessed, the conjugal state, is nothing.

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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