Chapter 101 – Wealth without Benefaction / Nandriyilselvam
Couplet 1001
Who fills his house with ample store, enjoying none,
Is dead Nought with the useless heap is done.
Explanation
He who does not enjoy the immense riches he has heaped up in his house, is (to be reckoned as) dead, (for) there is nothing achieved (by him).
Transliteration
Vaiththaanvaai Saandra Perumporul Aqdhunnaan
Seththaan Seyakkitandhadhu Il.
Couplet 1002
Who giving nought, opines from wealth all blessing springs,
Degraded birth that doting miser’s folly brings.
Explanation
He who knows that wealth yields every pleasure and yet is so blind as to lead miserly life will be born a demon.
Transliteration
Porulaanaam Ellaamendru Eeyaadhu Ivarum
Marulaanaam Maanaap Pirappu.
Couplet 1003
Who lust to heap up wealth, but glory hold not dear,
It burthens earth when on the stage of being they appear.
Explanation
A burden to the earth are men bent on the acquisition of riches and not (true) fame.
Transliteration
Eettam Ivari Isaiventaa Aatavar
Thotram Nilakkup Porai.
Couplet 1004
Whom no one loves, when he shall pass away,
What doth he look to leave behind, I pray.
Explanation
What will the miser who is not liked (by any one) regard as his own (in the world to come) ?.
Transliteration
Echchamendru Enennung Kollo Oruvaraal
Nachchap Pataaa Thavan.
Couplet 1005
Amid accumulated millions they are poor,
Who nothing give and nought enjoy of all they store.
Explanation
Those who neither give (to others) nor enjoy (their property) are (truly) destitute, though possessing immense riches.
Transliteration
Kotuppadhooum Thuyppadhooum Illaarkku Atukkiya
Kotiyun Taayinum Il.
Couplet 1006
Their ample wealth is misery to men of churlish heart,
Who nought themselves enjoy, and nought to worthy men impart.
Explanation
He who enjoys not (his riches) nor relieves the wants of the worthy is a disease to his wealth.
Transliteration
Edham Perunjelvam Thaandhuvvaan Thakkaarkkondru
Eedhal Iyalpilaa Thaan.
Couplet 1007
Like woman fair in lonelihood who aged grows,
Is wealth of him on needy men who nought bestows.
Explanation
The wealth of him who never bestows anything on the destitute is like a woman of beauty growing old without a husband.
Transliteration
Atraarkkondru Aatraadhaan Selvam Mikanalam
Petraal Thamiyalmooth Thatru.
Couplet 1008
When he whom no man loves exults in great prosperity,
‘Tis as when fruits in midmost of the town some poisonous tree.
Explanation
The wealth of him who is disliked (by all) is like the fruit-bearing of the etty tree in the midst of a town.
Transliteration
Nachchap Pataadhavan Selvam Natuvoorul
Nachchu Marampazhuth Thatru.
Couplet 1009
Who love abandon, self-afflict, and virtue’s way forsake
To heap up glittering wealth, their hoards shall others take.
Explanation
To heap up glittering wealth, their hoards shall others take.
Transliteration
Anporeeith Tharsetru Aranokkaadhu Eettiya
Onporul Kolvaar Pirar.
Couplet 1010
‘Tis as when rain cloud in the heaven grows day,
When generous wealthy man endures brief poverty.
Explanation
The short-lived poverty of those who are noble and rich is like the clouds becoming poor (for a while).
Transliteration
Seerutaich Chelvar Sirudhuni Maari
Varangoorn Thanaiyadhu Utaiththu.
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