மனைமாட்சி இல்லாள்கண் இல்லாயின் வாழ்க்கை எனைமாட்சித் தாயினும் இல்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 52 ↗Kural 52
If household excellence be wanting in the wife, Howe'er with splendour lived, all worthless is the life.
G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.
Source record
Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org
MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain
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