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Thirukkural 116

Chapter 12: நடுவு நிலைமை (Impartiality) · Virtue

Kural 116

கெடுவல்யான் என்பது அறிகதன் நெஞ்சம்
நடுவொரீஇ அல்ல செயின்.

Ketuvalyaan Enpadhu Arikadhan Nenjam
Natuvoreei Alla Seyin

If, right deserting, heart to evil turn, Let man impending ruin's sign discern

Meaning

Let him whose mind departing from equity commits sin well consider thus within himself, "I shall 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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