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Thirukkural 1209

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Kural 1209

விளியுமென் இன்னுயிர் வேறல்லம் என்பார்
அளியின்மை ஆற்ற நினைந்து.

Viliyumen Innuyir Verallam Enpaar
Aliyinmai Aatra Ninaindhu

Dear life departs, when his ungracious deeds I ponder o'er, Who said erewhile, 'We're one for evermore'

Meaning

My precious life is wasting away by thinking too much on the cruelty of him who said we were not different.

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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