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Thirukkural 196

Chapter 20: பயனில சொல்லாமை (Against Vain Speaking) · Virtue

Kural 196

பயனில்சொல் பாராட்டு வானை மகன்எனல்
மக்கட் பதடி யெனல்.

Payanil Sol Paaraattu Vaanai
Makanenal Makkat Padhati Yenal

Who makes display of idle words' inanity, Call him not man, -chaff of humanity

Meaning

Call not him a man who parades forth his empty words Call him the chaff of 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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