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Thirukkural 256

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

Kural 256

தினற்பொருட்டால் கொல்லாது உலகெனின் யாரும்
விலைப்பொருட்டால் ஊன்றருவா ரில்.

Thinarporuttaal Kollaadhu Ulakenin Yaarum
Vilaipporuttaal Oondraruvaa Ril

'We eat the slain,' you say, by us no living creatures die; Who'd kill and sell, I pray, if none came there the flesh to buy

Meaning

If the world does not destroy life for the purpose of eating, then no one would sell flesh for the sake of money.

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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