Thirukkural 1022 in English

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Tamil original

ஆள்வினையும் ஆன்ற அறிவும் எனஇரண்டின்
நீள்வினையால் நீளும் குடி.

Transliteration

Aalvinaiyum Aandra Arivum Enairantin
Neelvinaiyaal Neelum Kuti

English Translation

“These two exalt a noble home Ardent effort and ripe wisdom”

Plain-English meaning

One's family is raised by untiring perseverance in both effort and wise contrivances

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English Translation

These two exalt a noble home Ardent effort and ripe wisdom

G.U. Pope Translation

The manly act and knowledge full, when these combineIn deed prolonged, then lengthens out the race's line

Plain-English Meaning

One's family is raised by untiring perseverance in both effort and wise contrivances

முயற்சி, நிறைந்த அறிவு என்னும் இரண்டுடன் இடைவிடாத செயல் செய்யக் குடும்பமும் நாடும் உயரும்.

Chapter 103

குடிசெயல் வகை

No greatness is grander like Saying \"I shall work without slack\"

These two exalt a noble home Ardent effort and ripe wisdom

When one resolves to raise his race Loin girt up God leads his ways

Who raise their races with ceaseless pain No need for plan; their ends will gain

Who keeps his house without a blame People around, his kinship claim

Who raise their race which gave them birth Are deemed as men of manly worth

Like dauntless heroes in battle field The home-burden rests on the bold

No season have they who raise their race Sloth and pride will honour efface

Is not his frame a vase for woes Who from mishaps shields his house?

A house will fall by a mishap With no good man to prop it up