Thirukkural 1062 in English
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Tamil original
இரந்தும் உயிர்வாழ்தல் வேண்டின் பரந்து
கெடுக உலகியற்றி யான்.
Transliteration
Irandhum Uyirvaazhdhal Ventin Parandhu
Ketuka Ulakiyatri Yaan
Modern English
“If people must beg simply to survive, the world has been made unjust; even its creator would deserve to feel that hardship.”
Modern Interpretation
If people must beg simply to survive, the world has been made unjust; even its creator would deserve to feel that hardship. A society that leaves families dependent on handouts should question its own fairness.
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Modern Plain English
If people must beg simply to survive, the world has been made unjust; even its creator would deserve to feel that hardship.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
Let World-Maker loiter and rot If \"beg and live\" be human fate
G.U. Pope Translation
If he that shaped the world desires that men should begging go,Through life's long course, let him a wanderer be and perish so
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
If the Creator of the world has decreed even begging as a means of livelihood, may he too go abegging and perish
Tamil commentary
பிச்சை எடுத்துத்தான் உயிர்வாழ வேண்டும் என்ற நிலை இருந்தால், இந்த உலகைப் படைத்தவன் அங்கும் இங்கும் அலைந்து கெடுவானாக.
Chapter 107
More from The Dread of Mendicancy
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Not to beg is billions worth E'en from eye-like friends who give with mirth
Kural 1062Let World-Maker loiter and rot If \"beg and live\" be human fate
Kural 1063Nothing is hard like hard saying \"We end poverty by begging\"
Kural 1064All space is small before the great Who beg not e'en in want acute
Kural 1065Though gruel thin, nothing is sweet Like the food earned by labour's sweat
Kural 1066It may be water for the cow Begging tongue is mean anyhow
Kural 1067If beg they must I beg beggers Not to beg from shrinking misers
Kural 1068The hapless bark of beggary splits On the rock of refusing hits
Kural 1069The heart at thought of beggars melts; It dies at repulsing insults
Kural 1070The word \"No\" kills the begger's life Where can the niggard's life be safe?