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Tirukkural-On Virtue-On The Blessing Of Children-Kural 69
Inra
poludhir
perithuvakkum
tanmakanaic
sandron
enakketta
thaai.
Greater joy than at his birth, a mother feels, when she hears, Her son being hailed as 'Sandron' by cultured people.,
Every parents' bosom does swell with pride and joy on hearing competent men talk about the worth of their children. The term 'Sandron' refers to a person of exemplary virtue and culture.
Parimelalagar's comment, in trying to explain the reason why the word 'Kaetathaai has been used, that this Kural refers only to women, as only they are incapable of assessing the real worth of sons and consequently have to depend on other people's assessment, is something to be ignored, as a dark idea, reminiscent of the middle ages. Even earlier, we may safely assume, such ideas did not have currency in Tamil Nadu, which had women poets and heroines during the Sangam age. They were very much capable of assessing children's worth themselves.
The proud mother of a warrior who was asked by another woman where her son was, promptly replied in the poem of 'Purannanuru' beginning with the line 'Cittril natroonpatri nin mahan' – 'where-else will the tiger-cub go? He will surely be in the battlefield'.
With greater independence and better education the position has improved with each succeeding generation till the present, when they stand on a footing of absolute equality with men. All the same, when they hear cultured people and learned men say good things about their children, they feel a sense of fulfillment, characterized by joy and rightful pride.
It
was
such
a
feeling
which
is
described
about
an
old
mother
in
the
following
lines:
Vaalnarai
koondhal
mudhiyoal
siruvan
Kaliraerindhu
pattananaennu
muhavai
Inndra
jnanrinum
paeridhae
Such feeling comes not only to the mother but also to the father, as in (Kambaramayanam), when Dasaratha feels extremely elated, even more so that when Rama was born, when Vashista praises Rama's Kingly qualities.
Mattravan
sonna
vaasakamkaettalum
mahanai
Paettra
anrinum,
minjnakan
piditha
appaeruvil
Ittra
andrinum
yerimaluvaalan
ilukkam
Uttra
anrinum,
paeriyadhoar
uvakaiyan
aanaan
The
Bible
has
similar
lines:
'Thy
father
and
thy
mother
shall
be
glad
and
she
that
bare
thee
shall
rejoice',
referring
to
a
context
of
hearing
good
things
said
about
the
offspring.
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