Thirukkural 60 in English
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Tamil original
மங்கலம் என்ப மனைமாட்சி மற்று அதன்
நன்கலம் நன்மக்கட் பேறு.
Transliteration
Mangalam Enpa Manaimaatchi Matru
Adhan Nankalam Nanmakkat Peru
Modern English
“A caring and well-managed home is a family's greatest blessing, and children who grow with good values are its lasting treasure.”
Modern Interpretation
A caring and well-managed home is a family's greatest blessing, and children who grow with good values are its lasting treasure. This is not about perfection or status. For example, parents who teach kindness, responsibility, and respect give their children a stronger inheritance than expensive possessions.
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Modern Plain English
A caring and well-managed home is a family's greatest blessing, and children who grow with good values are its lasting treasure.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
An honest wife is home's delight And children good are jewels abright
G.U. Pope Translation
The house's 'blessing', men pronounce the house-wife excellent;The gain of blessed children is its goodly ornament
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
The excellence of a wife is the good of her husband; and good children are the jewels of that goodness
Tamil commentary
ஒருவனுக்கு நற்குண நற்செயல்களை உடைய மனைவியே அழகு என்று அறிந்தோர் கூறுவர். அந்த அழகிற்கு ஏற்ற அணிகலன்கள் நல்ல பிள்ளைகளைப் பெறுவதே.
Chapter 6
More from The Worth of a Wife
வாழ்க்கைத் துணைநலம்
A good housewife befits the house, Spending with thrift the mate's resource
Kural 52Bright is home when wife is chaste If not all greatness is but waste
Kural 53What is rare when wife is good What can be there when she is bad?
Kural 54What greater fortune is for men Than a constant chaste woman?
Kural 55Her spouse before God who adores, Is like rain that at request pours
Kural 56The good wife guards herself from blame, She tends her spouse and brings him fame
Kural 57Of what avail are watch and ward? Their purity is women's guard
Kural 58Women who win their husbands' heart Shall flourish where the gods resort
Kural 59A cuckold has not the lion-like gait Before his detractors aright
Kural 60An honest wife is home's delight And children good are jewels abright