Thirukkural 602 in English
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Tamil original
மடியை மடியா ஒழுகல் குடியைக்
குடியாக வேண்டு பவர்.
Transliteration
Matiyai Matiyaa Ozhukal Kutiyaik
Kutiyaaka Ventu Pavar
Modern English
“Anyone who wants their family to flourish must reject laziness and keep working with purpose.”
Modern Interpretation
Anyone who wants their family to flourish must reject laziness and keep working with purpose. For example, a young person who consistently studies and helps at home strengthens the whole household.
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Modern Plain English
Anyone who wants their family to flourish must reject laziness and keep working with purpose.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
To make your home an ideal home Loath sloth as sloth; refuse it room
G.U. Pope Translation
Let indolence, the death of effort, die,If you'd uphold your household's dignity
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
Let those, who desire that their family may be illustrious, put away all idleness from their conduct
Tamil commentary
தாம் பிறந்த குடும்பத்தை நல்ல குடும்பமாக உயர்த்த விரும்புபவர் சோம்பலைச் சோம்பலாக எண்ணி முயற்சி செய்க.
Chapter 61
More from Unsluggishness
மடி இன்மை
Quenchless lamp of ancestry goes When foul idleness encloses
Kural 602To make your home an ideal home Loath sloth as sloth; refuse it room
Kural 603The fool who fosters sluggishness Before he dies ruins his house
Kural 604Who strive not high, sunk deep in sloth Ruin their house by evil growth
Kural 605To lag, forget, idle and doze These four are pleasure boats of loss
Kural 606With all the wealth of lords of earth The slothful gain nothing of worth
Kural 607The slothful lacking noble deeds Subject themselves to scornful words
Kural 608If sloth invades a noble house It will become a slave of foes
Kural 609The blots on race and rule shall cease When one from sloth gets his release
Kural 610The slothless king shall gain en masse *All regions trod by Lord apace * Hindu mythology holds that Lord Vishnu measured with his feet the three worlds