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Thirukkural 1062

Chapter 107: இரவச்சம் (The Dread of Mendicancy) · Wealth

Kural 1062

இரந்தும் உயிர்வாழ்தல் வேண்டின் பரந்து
கெடுக உலகியற்றி யான்.

Irandhum Uyirvaazhdhal Ventin Parandhu
Ketuka Ulakiyatri Yaan

If he that shaped the world desires that men should begging go, Through life's long course, let him a wanderer be and perish so

Meaning

If the Creator of the world has decreed even begging as a means of livelihood, may he too go abegging and perish.

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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