Choosing People for Responsibilities
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vāri perukki vaḷampaṭut tuṟṟavai / yārāyvāṉ ceyka viṉai.
Entrust the work to one who can broaden sources of revenue, grow the resulting resources, and continually identify and remove the obstacles that affect them.
▸Other translations · Pope (1886) & Aiyar (1916)
“Who swells the revenues, spreads plenty o'er the land, / Seeks out what hinders progress, his the workman's hand.”
“Behold the man that is able to develop the resources of thy kingdom and to cure the ills that may befall it: set him to manage thy affairs.”
Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
வாரி பெருக்கி= பொருள் வரு வாயில்களை விரியச் செய்து; வளம்படுத்து= அப்பொருளாற் செல்வங்களை வளர்த்து; உற்றவை ஆராய்வான்= அவ்வாயில்கட்கும் பொருட்கும் செல்வங்கட்கும் உற்ற இடையூறுகளை நாள்தோறும் ஆராய்ந்து நீக்கவல்லவன்; வினைசெய்க= அரசனுக்கு வினைசெய்க.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
Parimelazhagar explains that the king's work should be done by one who can widen the channels through which revenue arrives, use that revenue to increase wealth, and continually examine and remove the obstacles affecting those channels, the income, and the resulting resources.