Thirukkural 1032 in English
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Tamil original
உழுவார் உலகத்தார்க்கு ஆணிஅஃ தாற்றாது
எழுவாரை எல்லாம் பொறுத்து.
Transliteration
Uzhuvaar Ulakaththaarkku Aaniaq Thaatraadhu
Ezhuvaarai Ellaam Poruththu
Modern English
“Farmers are a support for the whole world because they sustain people in every other line of work.”
Modern Interpretation
Farmers are a support for the whole world because they sustain people in every other line of work. For example, teachers, builders, and software workers can do their jobs only because someone grows their food.
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Modern Plain English
Farmers are a support for the whole world because they sustain people in every other line of work.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
Tillers are linch-pin of mankind Bearing the rest who cannot tend
G.U. Pope Translation
The ploughers are the linch-pin of the world; they bearThem up who other works perform, too weak its toils to share
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
Agriculturists are (as it were) the linch-pin of the world for they support all other workers who cannot till the soil
Tamil commentary
உழவுத் தொழிலைச் செய்ய முடியாமல் பிற தொழிலைச் செய்யச் செல்வோர் எல்லாரையும், உழவர்களே தாங்குவதால் அவர்களே இந்த உலகத்தவர்க்கு அச்சாணி ஆவர்.
Chapter 104
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Farming though hard is foremost trade Men ply at will but ploughmen lead
Kural 1032Tillers are linch-pin of mankind Bearing the rest who cannot tend
Kural 1033They live who live to plough and eat The rest behind them bow and eat
Kural 1034Who have the shade of cornful crest Under their umbra umbrellas rest
Kural 1035Who till and eat, beg not; nought hide But give to those who are in need
Kural 1036Should ploughmen sit folding their hands Desire-free monks too suffer wants
Kural 1037Moulds dried to quarter-dust ensure Rich crops without handful manure
Kural 1038Better manure than plough; then weed; Than irrigating, better guard
Kural 1039If landsmen sit sans moving about The field like wife will sulk and pout
Kural 1040Fair good earth will laugh to see Idlers pleading poverty