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Thirukkural 255

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

Kural 255

உண்ணாமை உள்ளது உயிர்நிலை ஊனுண்ண
அண்ணாத்தல் செய்யாது அளறு.

Unnaamai Ulladhu Uyirnilai Oonunna
Annaaththal Seyyaadhu Alaru

If flesh you eat not, life's abodes unharmed remain; Who eats, hell swallows him, and renders not again

Meaning

Not to eat flesh contributes to the continuance of life; therefore if a man eat flesh, hell will not open its mouth (to let him escape out, after he has once fallen in).

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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