Wealth (பொருட்பால்) Friendship
When you surrender your judgment to others.
Manaivizhaivaar Maanpayan Eydhaar VinaivizhaiyaarVentaap Porulum Adhu
Those who lust after their wives will not attain the excellence of virtue; and it is just this that is not desired by those who are bent on acquiring wealth
Who give their soul to love of wife acquire not nobler gain; Who give their soul to strenuous deeds such meaner joys disdain
G. U. Pope, 1886
Penaadhu Penvizhaivaan Aakkam PeriyadhorNaanaaka Naanuth Tharum
The wealth of him who, regardless (of his manliness), devotes himself to his wife's feminine nature will cause great shame (to ali men) and to himself;
Who gives himself to love of wife, careless of noble nameHis wealth will clothe him with o'erwhelming shame
G. U. Pope, 1886
Illaalkan Thaazhndha Iyalpinmai EgngnaandrumNallaarul Naanuth Tharum
The frailty that stoops to a wife will always make (her husband) feel ashamed among the good
Who to his wife submits, his strange, unmanly moodWill daily bring him shame among the good
G. U. Pope, 1886
Manaiyaalai Anjum Marumaiyi LaalanVinaiyaanmai Veereydha Lindru
The undertaking of one, who fears his wife and is therefore destitute of (bliss), will never be applauded
No glory crowns e'en manly actions wroughtBy him who dreads his wife, nor gives the other world a thought
G. U. Pope, 1886
Illaalai Anjuvaan Anjumar RegngnaandrumNallaarkku Nalla Seyal
He that fears his wife will always be afraid of doing good deeds (even) to the good
Who quakes before his wife will ever tremble too, Good deeds to men of good deserts to do
G. U. Pope, 1886
Imaiyaarin Vaazhinum Paatilare IllaalAmaiyaardhol Anju Pavar
They that fear the bamboo-like shoulders of their wives will be destitute of manliness though they may flourish like the Gods
Though, like the demi-gods, in bliss they dwell secure from harm, Those have no dignity who fear the housewife's slender arm
G. U. Pope, 1886
Penneval Seydhozhukum Aanmaiyin NaanutaipPenne Perumai Utaiththu
Even shame faced womanhood is more to be esteemed than the shameless manhood that performs
The dignity of modest womanhood excelsHis manliness, obedient to a woman's law who dwells
G. U. Pope, 1886
Nattaar Kuraimutiyaar Nandraatraar NannudhalaalPettaangu Ozhuku Pavar
Those who yield to the wishes of their wives will neither relieve the wants of (their) friends nor perform virtuous deeds
Who to the will of her with beauteous brow their lives conform, Aid not their friends in need, nor acts of charity perform
G. U. Pope, 1886
Aravinaiyum Aandra Porulum PiravinaiyumPeneval Seyvaarkan Il
From those who obey the commands of their wives are to be expected neither deeds of virtue, nor those of wealth nor (even) those of pleasure
No virtuous deed, no seemly wealth, no pleasure, restsWith them who live obedient to their wives' behests
G. U. Pope, 1886
Enserndha Nenjath Thitanutaiyaarkku EgngnaandrumPenserndhaam Pedhaimai Il
The foolishness that results from devotion to a wife will never be found in those who possess a reflecting mind and a prosperity (flowing) therefrom
Where pleasures of the mind, that dwell in realms of thought, abound, Folly, that springs from overweening woman's love, is never found
G. U. Pope, 1886
