Thirukkural 147 in English

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Tamil original

அறனியலான் இல்வாழ்வான் என்பான் பிறனியலாள்
பெண்மை நயவா தவன்.

Transliteration

Araniyalaan Ilvaazhvaan Enpaan Piraniyalaal
Penmai Nayavaa Thavan

English Translation

“He is the righteous householder His neighbour's wife who covets never”

Plain-English meaning

He who desires not the womanhood of her who should walk according to the will of another will be praised as a virtuous house-holder

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English Translation

He is the righteous householder His neighbour's wife who covets never

G.U. Pope Translation

Who sees the wife, another's own, with no desiring eyeIn sure domestic bliss he dwelleth ever virtuously

Plain-English Meaning

He who desires not the womanhood of her who should walk according to the will of another will be praised as a virtuous house-holder

அடுத்தவனுக்கு உரிமையானவனின் பெண்மையை விரும்பாதவன் அறத்துடன் குடும்பம் நடத்துபவன் எனப்படுவான்

Chapter 15

பிறனில் விழையாமை

Who know the wealth and virtue's way After other's wife do not stray

He is the worst law breaking boor Who haunts around his neighbour's door

The vile are dead who evil aim And put faithful friends' wives to shame

Their boasted greatness means nothing When to another's wife they cling

Who trifles with another's wife His guilty stain will last for life

Hatred, sin, fear, and shame-these four Stain adulterers ever more

He is the righteous householder His neighbour's wife who covets never

They lead a high-souled manly life The pure who eye not another's wife

Good in storm bound earth is with those Who clasp not arms of another's spouse

Sinners breaking virtue's behest Lust not for another's wife at least