Polity (பொருட்பால்) — Civil (குடியியல்) — Farming (உழவு)

Kural 1031:
சுழன்றும்ஏர்ப் பின்னது உலகம் அதனால்
உழந்தும் உழவே தலை.
suzhandrum-Erp pinnadhu ulagam adhanaal
uzhandhum uzhavae thalai
English couplet:
Howe'er they roam, the world must follow still the plougher's team;
Though toilsome, culture of the ground as noblest toil esteem.
Explanation: Agriculture, though laborious, is the most excellent (form of labour); for people, though they go about (in search of various employments), have at last to resort to the farmer.

Kural 1032:
உழுவார் உலகத்தார்க்கு ஆணிஅஃ தாற்றாது
எழுவாரை எல்லாம் பொறுத்து.
uzhuvaar ulagaththaarkku aaNi-aq thaatraadhu
ezhuvaarai ellaam poRuththu
English couplet:
The ploughers are the linch-pin of the world; they bear
Them up who other works perform, too weak its toils to share.
Explanation: Agriculturists are (as it were) the linch-pin of the world for they support all other workers who cannot till the soil.

Kural 1033:
உழுதுண்டு வாழ்வாரே வாழ்வார்மற் றெல்லாம்
தொழுதுண்டு பின்செல் பவர்.
uzhudhuNdu vaazhvaarae vaazhvaarmaR Rellaam
thozhudhuNdu pinsel pavar
English couplet:
Who ploughing eat their food, they truly live:
The rest to others bend subservient, eating what they give.
Explanation: They alone live who live by agriculture; all others lead a cringing, dependent life.

Kural 1034:
பலகுடை நீழலும் தங்குடைக்கீழ்க் காண்பர்
அலகுடை நீழ லவர்.
palakudai neezhalum thangutaikkeezhk kaaNpar
alakutai neezha lavar
English couplet:
O'er many a land they 'll see their monarch reign,
Whose fields are shaded by the waving grain.
Explanation: The Patriotic farmers desire to bring all other states under the control of their own king.

Kural 1035:
இரவார் இரப்பார்க்கொன்று ஈவர் கரவாது
கைசெய்தூண் மாலை யவர்.
iravaar irappaarkkondru eevar karavaadhu
kaiseydhooN maalai yavar
English couplet:
They nothing ask from others, but to askers give,
Who raise with their own hands the food on which they live.
Explanation: Those whose nature is to live by manual labour will never beg but give something to those who beg.

Kural 1036:
உழவினார் கைம்மடங்கின் இல்லை விழைவதூஉம்
விட்டேம்என் பார்க்கும் நிலை.
uzhavinaar kaimmatangin illai vizhaivadhooum
vittaemen paarkkum nilai
English couplet:
For those who 've left what all men love no place is found,
When they with folded hands remain who till the ground.
Explanation: If the farmer's hands are slackened, even the ascetic state will fail.

Kural 1037:
தொடிப்புழுதி கஃசா உணக்கின் பிடித்தெருவும்
வேண்டாது சாலப் படும்.
thotippuzhudhi kaqsaa uNakkin pitiththeruvum
vaeNtaadhu saalap padum
English couplet:
Reduce your soil to that dry state, When ounce is quarter-ounce's weight;
Without one handful of manure, Abundant crops you thus secure.
Explanation: If the land is dried so as to reduce one ounce of earth to a quarter, it will grow plentifully even without a handful of manure.

Kural 1038:
ஏரினும் நன்றால் எருவிடுதல் கட்டபின்
நீரினும் நன்றதன் காப்பு.
Erinum nandraal eruvidudhal kattapin
neerinum nandradhan kaappu
English couplet:
To cast manure is better than to plough;
Weed well; to guard is more than watering now.
Explanation: Manuring is better than ploughing; after weeding, watching is better than watering (it).

Kural 1039:
செல்லான் கிழவன் இருப்பின் நிலம்புலந்து
இல்லாளின் ஊடி விடும்.
sellaan kizhavan iruppin nilampulandhu
illaaLin ooti vidum
English couplet:
When master from the field aloof hath stood;
Then land will sulk, like wife in angry mood.
Explanation: If the owner does not (personally) attend to his cultivation, his land will behave like an angry wife and yield him no pleasure.

Kural 1040:
இலமென்று அசைஇ இருப்பாரைக் காணின்
நிலமென்னும் நல்லாள் நகும்.
ilamendru asaii iruppaaraik kaaNin
nilamennum nallaaL nakum
English couplet:
The earth, that kindly dame, will laugh to see,
Men seated idle pleading poverty.
Explanation: The maiden, Earth, will laugh at the sight of those who plead poverty and lead an idle life.