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Thirukkural 21

Chapter 3: நீத்தார் பெருமை (The Greatness of Ascetics) · Virtue

Kural 21

ஒழுக்கத்து நீத்தார் பெருமை விழுப்பத்து
வேண்டும் பனுவல் துணிவு.

Ozhukkaththu Neeththaar Perumai Vizhuppaththu
Ventum Panuval Thunivu

The settled rule of every code requires, as highest good, Their greatness who, renouncing all, true to their rule have stood

Meaning

The end and aim of all treatise is to extol beyond all other excellence, the greatness of those who, while abiding in the rule of conduct peculiar to their state, have abandoned all desire.

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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