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Thirukkural 113

Chapter 12: நடுவு நிலைமை (Impartiality) · Virtue

Kural 113

நன்றே தரினும் நடுவிகந்தாம் ஆக்கத்தை
அன்றே யொழிய விடல்.

Nandre Tharinum Natuvikandhaam Aakkaththai
Andre Yozhiya Vital

Though only good it seem to give, yet gainBy wrong acquired, not e'en one day retain

Meaning

Forsake in the very moment (of acquisition) that gain which, though it should bring advantage, is without equity.

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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