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Thirukkural 254

Chapter 26: புலால் மறுத்தல் (Abstinence from Flesh) · Virtue

Kural 254

அருளல்ல தியாதெனிற் கொல்லாமை கோறல்
பொருளல்லது அவ்வூன் தினல்.

Arulalladhu Yaadhenin Kollaamai Koral
Porulalladhu Avvoon Thinal

'What's grace, or lack of grace'? 'To kill' is this, that 'not to kill'; To eat dead flesh can never worthy end fulfil

Meaning

If it be asked what is kindness and what its opposite, the answer would be preservation and destruction of life; and therefore it is not right to feed on the flesh (obtained by taking away life).

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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