திருக்குறள் Thirukkural of Thiruvalluvar

உலகப் பொதுமறை A guide for every life, in two lines at a time

The Thirukkural is 1,330 couplets on virtue, wealth and love, written in Tamil by the poet Thiruvalluvar about two thousand years ago. Read each kural in the original Tamil, learn how to say it, see what it means in plain English, and switch the last box to your own language.

Today's kural, 13 October 2026

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Kural 54

Chapter 6, The Worth of a Wife
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How to say it

Pennin Perundhakka Yaavula KarpennumThinmaiun Taakap Perin

Meaning in plain English

What is more excellent than a wife, if she possess the stability of chastity ?

Poetic translation

If woman might of chastity retain, What choicer treasure doth the world contain

G. U. Pope, 1886

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Tap a situation and see what Valluvar advises, or start from chapter 1, The Praise of God.

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