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Thirukkural 222

Kural 222

நல்லாறு எனினும் கொளல்தீது மேலுலகம்
இல்லெனினும் ஈதலே நன்று.

Nallaaru Eninum Kolaldheedhu Melulakam
Illeninum Eedhale Nandru

Though men declare it heavenward path, yet to receive is ill; Though upper heaven were not, to give is virtue still

Meaning

To beg is evil, even though it were said that it is a good path (to heaven) To give is good, even though it were said that those who do so cannot obtain heaven.

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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