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Thirukkural 144

Chapter 15: பிறனில் விழையாமை (Not Coveting Another's Wife) · Virtue

Kural 144

எனைத்துணையர் ஆயினும் என்னாம் தினைத்துணையும்
தேரான் பிறனில் புகல்.

Enaiththunaiyar Aayinum Ennaam Thinaiththunaiyum
Theraan Piranil Pukal

How great soe'er they be, what gain have they of life, Who, not a whit reflecting, seek a neighbour's wife

Meaning

However great one may be, what does it avail if, without at all considering his guilt, he goes unto the wife of another ?

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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