Thirukkural · அறத்துப்பால் · மக்கட்பேறு

Thirukkural 68

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

Kural 68

தம்மின்தம் மக்கள் அறிவுடைமை மாநிலத்து
மன்னுயிர்க் கெல்லாம் இனிது.

Thammindham Makkal Arivutaimai Maanilaththu
Mannuyirk Kellaam Inidhu

Their children's wisdom greater than their own confessed, Through the wide world is sweet to every human breast

Meaning

That their children should possess knowledge is more pleasing to all men of this great earth than to themselves.

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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