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Thirukkural 67

Chapter 7: மக்கட்பேறு (The Wealth of Children) · Virtue

Kural 67

தந்தை மகற்காற்றும் நன்றி அவையத்து
முந்தி இருப்பச் செயல்.

Thandhai Makarkaatrum Nandri Avaiyaththu
Mundhi Iruppach Cheyal

Sire greatest boon on son confers, who makes him meet, In councils of the wise to fill the highest seat

Meaning

The benefit which a father should confer on his son is to give him precedence in the assembly of the learned.

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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