Wealth
Chapter 39 – The Greatness of a King / Iraimaatchi
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 381 An army, people, wealth, a minister, friends, fort: six things- Who owns them all, a lion […]...
Chapter 40 – Learning / Kalvi
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 391 So learn that you may full and faultless learning gain, Then in obedience meet to lessons […]...
Chapter 41 – Ignorance / Kallaamai
Couplet 401 Like those at draughts would play without the chequered square, Men void of ample lore would counsels of […]...
Chapter 42 – Hearing / Kelvi
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 411 Wealth of wealth is wealth acquired be ear attend; Wealth mid all wealth supremely excellent. Explanation […]...
Chapter 43 – The Possession of Knowledge / Arivutaimai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 421 True wisdom wards off woes, A circling fortress high; Its inner strength man’s eager foes Unshaken […]...
Chapter 44 – The Correction of Faults / Kutrangatidhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 431 Who arrogance, and wrath, and littleness of low desire restrain, To sure increase of lofty dignity […]...
Chapter 45 – Seeking the Aid of Great Men / Periyaaraith Thunaikkotal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 441 As friends the men who virtue knows, and riper wisdom share, Their worth weighed well, the […]...
Chapter 46 – Avoiding mean Associations / Sitrinanjeraamai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 451 The great of soul will mean association fear; The mean of soul regard mean men as […]...
Chapter 47 – Acting after due Consideration / Therindhuseyalvakai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 461 Expenditure, return, and profit of the deed In time to come; weigh these- than to the […]...
Chapter 48 -The Knowledge of Power / Valiyaridhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 471 The force the strife demands, the force he owns, the force of foes, The force of […]...
Chapter 49 – Knowing the fitting Time / Kaalamaridhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 481 A crow will conquer owl in broad daylight; The king that foes would crush, needs fitting […]...
Chapter 50 – Knowing the Place / Idanaridhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 491 Begin no work of war, depise no foe, Till place where you can wholly circumvent you […]...
Chapter 51 Selection and Confidence / Therindhudhelidhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 501 How treats he virtue, wealth and pleasure? How, when life’s at stake, Comports himself? This four-fold […]...
Chapter 52 – Selection and Employment / Therindhuvinaiyaatal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 511 Who good and evil scanning, ever makes the good his joy; Such man of virtuous mood […]...
Chapter 53 – Cherishing Kinsmen / Sutrandhazhaal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 521 When wealth is fled, old kindness still to show, Is kindly grace that only kinsmen know. […]...
Chapter 54 – Unforgetfulness / Pochchaavaamai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 531 ‘Tis greater ill, it rapture of o’erweening gladness to the soul Bring self-forgetfulness than if transcendent […]...
Chapter 55 – The Right Sceptre / Sengonmai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 541 Search out, to no one favour show; with heart that justice loves Consult, then act; this […]...
Chapter 56 – The Cruel Sceptre / Kotungonmai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 551 Than one who plies the murderer’s trade, more cruel is the king Who all injustice works, […]...
Chapter 57 / Absence of Terrorism
Veruvandhaseyyaamai Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 561 Who punishes, investigation made in due degree, So as to stay advance of crime, a […]...
Chapter 58 – Benignity / Kannottam
Couplet 571 Since true benignity, that grace exceeding great, resides In kingly souls, world in happy state abides. Explanation The […]...
Chapter 59 – Detectives / Otraatal
Couplet 581 These two: the code renowned and spies, In these let king confide as eyes. Explanation Let a king […]...
Chapter 60 – Energy / Ookkamutaimai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 591 ‘Tis energy gives men o’er that they own a true control; They nothing own who own […]...
Chapter 61 – Unsluggishness / Matiyinmai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 601 Of household dignity the lustre beaming bright, Flickers and dies when sluggish foulness dims its light. […]...
Chapter 62 – Manly Effort / Aalvinaiyutaimai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 611 Say not, ‘Tis hard’, in weak, desponding hour, For strenuous effort gives prevailing power. Explanation Yield […]...
Chapter 63 – Hopefulness in Trouble / Itukkan Azhiyaamai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 621 Smile, with patient, hopeful heart, in troublous hour; Meet and so vanquish grief; nothing hath equal […]...
Chapter 64 – The Office of Minister of state / Amaichchu
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 631 A minister is he who grasps, with wisdom large, Means, time, work’s mode, and functions rare […]...
Chapter 65 – Power of Speech / Solvanmai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 641 A tongue that rightly speaks the right is greatest gain, It stands alone midst goodly things […]...
Chapter 66 – Purity in Action / Vinaiththooimai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 651 The good external help confers is worldly gain; By action good men every needed gift obtains. […]...
Chapter 67 Power in Action / Vinaiththitpam
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 661 What men call ‘power in action’ know for ‘power of mind’ Externe to man all other […]...
Chapter 68 – Modes of Action / Vinaiseyalvakai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 671 The Resolve is counsel’s end, If resolutions halt In weak delays, still unfulfilled, ’tis grievous fault. […]...
Chapter 69 – The Envoy / Thoodhu
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 681 Benevolence high birth, the courtesy kings love: – These qualities the envoy of a king approves. […]...
Chapter 70 – Conduct in the Presence of the King
Mannaraich Cherndhozhudhal Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 691 Who warm them at the fire draw not too near, nor keep too much […]...
Chapter 71 – The Knowledge of Indications / Kuripparidhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 701 Who knows the sign, and reads unuttered thought, the gem is he, Of earth round traversed […]...
Chapter 72 – The Knowledge of the Council Chamber
Avaiyaridhal Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 711 Men pure in heart, who know of words the varied force, Should to their audience […]...
Chapter 73 – Not to dread the Council Avaiyanjaamai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 721 Men, pure in heart, who know of words the varied force, The mighty council’s moods discern, […]...
Chapter 74 – The Land / Naatu
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 731 Where spreads fertility unfailing, where resides a band, Of virtuous men, and those of ample wealth, […]...
Chapter 75 – The Fortification / Aran
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 741 A fort is wealth to those who act against their foes; Is wealth to them who, […]...
Chapter 76 – Way of Accumulating Wealth / Porulseyalvakai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 751 Nothing exists save wealth, that can Change man of nought to worthy man. Explanation Besides wealth […]...
Chapter 77 – The Excellence of an Army / Pataimaatchi
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 761 A conquering host, complete in all its limbs, that fears no wound, Mid treasures of the […]...
Chapter 78 – Military Spirit / Pataichcherukku
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 771 Ye foes stand not before my lord for many a one Who did my lord withstand, […]...
Chapter 79 – Friendship / Natpu
Couplet 781 What so hard for men to gain as friendship true What so sure defence ‘gainst all that foe […]...
Chapter 80 – Investigation in forming Friendships / Natpaaraaidhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 791 To make an untried man your friend is ruin sure; For friendship formed unbroken must endure. […]...
Chapter 81 – Familiarity / Pazhaimai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 801 Familiarity is friendship’s silent pact, That puts restraint on no familiar act. Explanation Imtimate friendship is […]...
Chapter 82 – Evil Friendship / Thee Natpu
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 811 Though evil men should all-absorbing friendship show, Their love had better die away than grow. Explanation […]...
Chapter 83 – Unreal Friendship / Kootaanatpu
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 821 Anvil where thou shalt smitten be, when men occasion find, Is friendship’s form without consenting mind. […]...
Chapter 84 – Folly / Pedhaimai
Couplet 831 What one thing merits folly’s special name. Letting gain go, loss for one’s own to claim. Explanation Folly […]...
Chapter 85 – Ignorance / Pullarivaanmai
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 841 Want of knowledge, ‘mid all wants the sorest want we deem; Want of other things the […]...
Chapter 86 – Hostility / Ikal
Couplet 851 Hostility disunion’s plague will bring, That evil quality, to every living thing. Explanation The disease which fosters the […]...
Chapter 87 – The Might of Hatred / Pakaimaatchi
Couplets / kuratpaakal Couplet 861 With stronger than thyself, turn from the strife away; With weaker shun not, rather court the […]...- 1
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