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Thirukkural 27

Chapter 3: நீத்தார் பெருமை (The Greatness of Ascetics) · Virtue

Kural 27

சுவைஒளி ஊறுஓசை நாற்றமென ஐந்தின்
வகைதெரிவான் கட்டே உலகு.

Suvaioli Ooruosai Naatramendru Aindhin
Vakaidherivaan Katte Ulaku

Taste, light, touch, sound, and smell: who knows the wayOf all the five,- the world submissive owns his sway

Meaning

The world is within the knowledge of him who knows the properties of taste, sight, touch, hearing and smell.

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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