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Thirukkural 81

Chapter 9: விருந்தோம்பல் (Hospitality) · Virtue

Kural 81

இருந்தோம்பி இல்வாழ்வ தெல்லாம் விருந்தோம்பி
வேளாண்மை செய்தற் பொருட்டு.

Irundhompi Ilvaazhva Thellaam Virundhompi
Velaanmai Seydhar Poruttu

All household cares and course of daily life have this in viewGuests to receive with courtesy, and kindly acts to do

Meaning

The whole design of living in the domestic state and laying up (property) is (to be able) to exercise the benevolence of hospitality.

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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