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Thirukkural 257

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

Kural 257

உண்ணாமை வேண்டும் புலாஅல் பிறிதொன்றன்
புண்ணது உணர்வார்ப் பெறின்.

Unnaamai Ventum Pulaaal Piridhondran
Punnadhu Unarvaarp Perin

With other beings' ulcerous wounds their hunger they appease; If this they felt, desire to eat must surely cease

Meaning

If men should come to know that flesh is nothing but the unclean ulcer of a body, let them abstain from eating it.

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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