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Chapter 15: பிறனில் விழையாமை

On Virtue Domestic Virtue Chapter 15

Kural 147

பிறனில் விழையாமை

Position 7/10

திருக்குறள்

அறனியலான் இல்வாழ்வான் என்பான் பிறனியலாள் பெண்மை நயவா தவன்.

Araniyalaan Ilvaazhvaan Enpaan Piraniyalaal Penmai Nayavaa Thavan

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

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

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Kural #147

Karthik and the Test of Respect

The story illustrates the Kural's teaching that a virtuous person is one who does not desire the affection of a woman who belongs to another household. 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

8–14 yr 2 min