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Manaimaatchi Illaalkan Illaayin VaazhkkaiEnaimaatchith Thaayinum Il

If household excellence be wanting in the wife,Howe'er with splendour lived, all worthless is the life

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If the wife be devoid of domestic excellence, whatever (other) greatness be possessed, the conjugal state, is nothing