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Thirukkural 269

Kural 269

கூற்றம் குதித்தலும் கைகூடும் நோற்றலின்
ஆற்றல் தலைப்பட் டவர்க்குல்.

Kootram Kudhiththalum Kaikootum Notralin
Aatral Thalaippat Tavarkkul

E'en over death the victory he may gain, If power by penance won his soul obtain

Meaning

Those who have attained the power which religious discipline confers, will be able also to pass the limit of Yama, (the God of death).

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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