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Thirukkural 190

Chapter 19: புறங்கூறாமை (Not Backbiting) · Virtue

Kural 190

ஏதிலார் குற்றம்போல் தங்குற்றங் காண்கிற்பின்
தீதுண்டோ மன்னும் உயிர்க்கு.

Edhilaar Kutrampol Thangutrang Kaankirpin
Theedhunto Mannum Uyirkku

If each his own, as neighbours' faults would scan, Could any evil hap to living man

Meaning

If they observed their own faults as they observe the faults of others, would any evil happen to men ?

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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