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Thirukkural 1049

Chapter 105: நல்குரவு (Poverty) · Wealth

Kural 1049

நெருப்பினுள் துஞ்சலும் ஆகும் நிரப்பினுள்
யாதொன்றும் கண்பாடு அரிது.

Neruppinul Thunjalum Aakum Nirappinul
Yaadhondrum Kanpaatu Aridhu

Amid the flames sleep may men's eyelids close, In poverty the eye knows no repose

Meaning

One may sleep in the midst of fire; but by no means in the midst of poverty.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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