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Thirukkural 120

Chapter 12: நடுவு நிலைமை (Impartiality) · Virtue

Kural 120

வாணிகம் செய்வார்க்கு வாணிகம் பேணிப்
பிறவும் தமபோல் செயின்.

Vaanikam Seyvaarkku Vaanikam Penip
Piravum Thamapol Seyin

As thriving trader is the trader known, Who guards another's interests as his own

Meaning

The true merchandize of merchants is to guard and do by the things of others as they do by their own.

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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