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Thirukkural 246

Chapter 25: அருளுடைமை (Compassion) · Virtue

Kural 246

பொருள்நீங்கிப் பொச்சாந்தார் என்பர் அருள்நீங்கி
அல்லவை செய்தொழுகு வார்.

Porulneengip Pochchaandhaar Enpar Arulneengi
Allavai Seydhozhuku Vaar

Gain of true wealth oblivious they eschew, Who 'grace' forsake, and graceless actions do

Meaning

(The wise) say that those who neglect kindness and practise cruelties, neglected virtue (in their former birth), and forgot (the sorrows which they must suffer.)

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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