Thandhaii makarkaatrrum nandri avaiyaththu Mundhi iruppa seyal.

The good that a father can do for his son is to enable him to sit in the front of the assembly (of the learned).

தந்தை தன் மகனுக்கு செய்யும் சிறந்த உதவி, அவன் அவையில் (அறிஞர் சபையில்) முன்னால் அமர்ந்திருக்கும்படி செய்வதே.

The best gift a father can give: education and cultivation that enables the son to sit in the FRONT of learned assemblies — to be respected among scholars. Not wealth, not property, not social position — but the capacity to earn front-row status among the learned. Intellectual and moral excellence is the greatest inheritance.