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Thirukkural 70

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

Kural 70

மகன்தந்தைக்கு ஆற்றும் உதவி இவன்தந்தை
என்நோற்றான் கொல் எனும் சொல்.

Makandhandhaikku Aatrum Udhavi Ivandhandhai
Ennotraan Kol Enum Sol

To sire, what best requital can by grateful child be done?To make men say, 'What merit gained the father such a son?'

Meaning

(So to act) that it may be said "by what great penance did his father beget him," is the benefit which a son should render to his father.

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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